Advertising Last completed movie pages Césio 137 – O Pesadelo de Goiânia (Caesium-137 – The Nightmare of Goiânia), 
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![[Image: 2025-01-081.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/17801/25/2025-01-081.jpg) ![[Image: 2025-01-082.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/17801/25/2025-01-082.jpg) ![[Image: 2025-01-08.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/17801/25/2025-01-08.jpg) *1990 dramatic enactment of the Goiânia radioactive contamination accident that occurred in in Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil, after an abandoned radiotherapy source containing caesium-137 was stolen from an abandoned hospital site in the city by two scavengers. These two people stole this unit not knowing what is was and started picking it apart for scrapes. They then punctured the core and a blue light emitted from it, likely Cherenkov glow. However, the two who stole the unit started getting very sick. They sold it to a scrapyard, the scrapyard owner saw the blue light and thought it was supernatural. He invited everyone to come see this phenomenon. Then his wife started getting sick and he sold it to another scrapyard owner. The new owner then thinking it was supernatural took this blue dust and spread it all over his house for good luck. His six-year-old niece laid a sandwich she was eating on the floor before, being a small child attracted to glowing objects, spreading some of the blue powder all over her body. The wife of the first scrapyard owner noticed that people around her had only started getting violently ill after the source and so brought the leaking component to a hospital via public transit, not knowing it was radioactive. One of the staff who had treated one of the effected noted that the burns he saw were similar to radiation burns and retrieved a Geiger counter (or something similar). As soon as he turned it on, the needle jumped off the charts. Thinking it was defective, he retrieved a second one. Same result. The gravity of the situation immediately became clear and local, state, and federal authorities were made aware of what had happened by the end of the day. All in all, 249 people were found to be contaminated by radiation, in addition to three buses, 42 houses, 14 cars, five pigs, and 50'000 rolls of toilet paper. Four people ultimately died of radiation poisoning; two employees of Devair Ferreira, the first scrapyard owner who bought the source, his wife, and his niece, who had spread the materiel on her body and subsequently recieved a full-body dose of 6 grays**, the highest dosage of the four fatalities. Following her death, her body was so irradiated that the coffin she was buried in had to be lead-lined. * I do not know Portuguese, would a member please be so kind as to translate? ** For comparison, people in Chernobyl were getting ill after absorbing just .08 grays This movie was actually made by one of the survivors of this accident, by Roberto Pires. Set in 1987. This is also my first film from not just Brazil, but from South America! |
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