Radiation accidents
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Radiation is harmful to health and there have been many accidents caused by radiation:
- 17 fatalities – Instituto Oncologico Nacional of Panama, August 2000 -March 2001. patients receiving treatment for prostate cancer and cancer of the cervix receive lethal doses of radiation.[1][2]
- 13 fatalities – Radiotherapy accident in Costa Rica, 1996. 114 patients received an overdose of radiation from a Cobalt-60 source that was being used for radiotherapy.[3]
- 11 fatalities – Radiotherapy accident in Zaragoza, Spain, December 1990. Cancer patients receiving radiotherapy; 27 patients were injured.[4]
- 10 fatalities – Columbus radiotherapy accident, 1974–1976, 88 injuries from Cobalt-60 source.[2][5]
- 8 fatalities – Radiation accident in Morocco, March 1984.[6]
- 7 fatalities – Houston radiotherapy accident, 1980.[2][5]
- 5 fatalities – Lost radiation source, Baku, Azerbaijan, USSR, October 5, 1982. 13 injuries.[2]
- 4 fatalities – Goiânia accident, September 13, 1987. 249 people received serious radiation contamination from lost radiography source.[7]
- 4 fatalities – Radiation accident in Mexico City, 1962.
- 3 fatalities – Three deaths and ten injuries resulted in Samut Prakarn, Thailand when a radiation-therapy unit was dismantled, February 2000.[8]
- 1 fatality – Mayapuri radiological accident, India, April 2010.[8]
- 1 fatality – Malfunction INES level 4 at RA2 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, operator Osvaldo Rogulich dies days later.
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- ↑ Investigation of an accidental Exposure of radiotherapy patients in Panama - International Atomic Energy Agency
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Johnston, Robert (September 23, 2007). "Deadliest radiation accidents and other events causing radiation casualties". Database of Radiological Incidents and Related Events. http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nuclear/radevents/radevents1.html.
- ↑ Medical management of radiation accidents pp. 299 & 303.
- ↑ Strengthening the Safety of Radiation Sources p. 15.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Ricks, Robert C. et al. (2000). "REAC/TS Radiation Accident Registry: Update of Accidents in the United States". International Radiation Protection Association. p. 6. http://www.irpa.net/irpa10/cdrom/00325.pdf.
- ↑ Lost Iridium-192 Source
- ↑ The Radiological Accident in Goiania p. 2.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Pallava Bagla. "Radiation Accident a 'Wake-Up Call' For India's Scientific Community" Science, Vol. 328, 7 May 2010, p. 679.
