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Well There's Your Problem | Episode 28: Goiânia Incident

204K views · Jun 3, 2020 · 1:42:33 · 2 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2021–2023

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.

Why Hacker News points people here: HN points to it as a good, detailed podcast account whenever the Goiania incident or lost radioactive sources come up.

“Goes into detail day by day about the events”HN comment, 2023

What Hacker News said 3

RecommendssmclJan 2023

“There’s a good Well There’s Your Problem episode about this”

Good episode on the Goiania accident.

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There’s a good Well There’s Your Problem episode about this, if people would rather see a video about it: this video

in “Australians Scour Desert for Dangerous Radioactive Capsule Smaller Than a Penny” · view on HN
RecommendsPxtlFeb 2023

“Goes into detail day by day about the events”

Day by day account of the event, celebrating heroes.

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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

Cites itocczNov 2021

“The podcast Well There's Your Problem has an episode covering this incident”

Podcast episode covering the Goiania incident.

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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.

in “The Goiânia Accident (1987)” · view on HN