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Netflix series 'Radioactive Emergency' reviewed by an ANSTO health physicist

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HomeNetflix series 'Radioactive Emergency' reviewed by an ANSTO health physicist Published on the 8th May 2026 by ANSTO StaffShare to FacebookShare to BlueskyShare to LinkedIn “Radioactive Emergency” depicts a dramatised but largely faithful account of one of the world’s worst radiological incidents: the 1987 Goiânia accident in Brazil. A highly radioactive capsule of caesium-137 (Cs-137) from an abandoned radiotherapy centre was taken apart b…
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The column "Living with the Law" is a partnership between Plural and the Paranaense School of Law. The Netflix series "Radioactive Emergency," which documents the radioactive disaster in Goiânia in September 1987, has brought the responsibility of those involved back into discussion. Beyond the negligence of the clinic (Instituto Goiano de Radioterapia) that abandoned the radioactive object in a ruined facility, a fundamental question arises: wh…

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ansto.gov.au broke the news on Friday, May 8, 2026.
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