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"Today in 1987, the tragic and deadly radiological accident in Goiânia, Brazil, began when two young male scrap hunters unwittingly stole a highly-radioactive teletherapy source assembly from an abandoned cancer clinic, later extracting it, puncturing it, and selling it to a junkyard for roughly $25."
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"A black and white graphic based on a drawing made shortly after the discovery of the accident that attempts to reconstruct the sequence of events that led to the spread of highly-radioactive cesium-137 chloride. “It is reproduced in the format in which it was originally drawn even though it differs in minor details from what is now considered to be the best description of events.”"
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"A black and white figure from a 1988 International Atomic Energy Agency report showing the location of Brazil within South America, and of Goiânia in relation to Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, and of the relative size of the contaminated area of Goiânia."
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