A worker unknowingly put an unshielded 185 GBq iridium-192 source used for industrial radiography in his pocket. As a result of exposure to the iridium ...

In March 1984, a serious radiation accident occurred in Morocco, at the Mohammedia power plant, where eight people died from pulmonary hemorrhaging.

On 20 February 1999, a serious radiological acci- dent occurred at the Yanango hydroelectric power plant in Peru when a worker (a welder) picked up an 192Ir ...

The accident was caused by a missing radioactive source. It was due to non-compliance licensing conditions by two radiographers dispatched by an industrial ...

In March 1984, a serious radiation incident occurred in Morocco that was reported in an official press release from the Ministry of the Interior.

Three incidents are reported, from different radiotherapy centres, in which an implanted iridium-192 wire remained in the tissues of a patient after ...

16 апр. 2015 г. · A container of Iridium-192 used for industrial radiography was taken from a truck in the town of Cardenas in Tabasco state. The states of ...

The cause of the event was a loose screw in the treatment device that interfered with the gear reeling the source. This event had minimal clinical effects on ...

Radio dermatitis had begun already after the incident, while changes on the heart began not earlier than six months and gradually have been increased up to two ...

The trouble began March 13 when HE Northway, Del's father and manager of the Houston plant of MW Kellogg Co., was opening a shipment of intensely radioactive ...