Well There's Your Problem | Episode 28: Goiânia Incident
Well There's Your Problem Podcast2 HN recommenders · recommended in 2 months, 2021–2023
podcast · general · evergreen · 2021–2023 on HN
An episode of the Well There's Your Problem podcast on the 1987 Goiania radiological accident in Brazil, based largely on the IAEA report. It goes through the event day by day.
HN points to it as a good, detailed podcast account whenever the Goiania incident or lost radioactive sources come up.
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3 comments from Hacker News
There's a pretty good Well There's Your Problem episode about it (dirtbag-left podcast-with-slides about industrial disasters). Goes into detail day by day about the events, including celebrating some of the heroes of the story who probably saved countless lives. ▶ this video
There’s a good Well There’s Your Problem episode about this, if people would rather see a video about it: ▶ this video
The podcast Well There's Your Problem has an episode covering this incident: ▶ this video As it turns out, when you have highly radioactive stuff in your buildings, you should probably clean that radioactive stuff out when abandoning said building.