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

Well There's Your Problem | Episode 28: Goiânia Incident on HackerTube: recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 separate months, 2021–2023.

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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 recommends it

HN points to it as a good, detailed podcast account whenever the Goiania incident or lost radioactive sources come up.

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2021–2023
“Goes into detail day by day about the events”
— Pxtl, Feb 2023, in “Goiânia Accident”

What HN commenters said

3 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.

PxtlFeb 2023Recommends

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

in “Goiânia Accident” · View on HN

smclJan 2023Recommends

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

occzNov 2021Cites it

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

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Nuclear power & fusionDocumentaries & storytellingEngineering & making (other)goianiaradiation accidentcesium-137engineering failureshistory