Well There's Your Problem | Episode 28: Goiânia Incident
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.
What it is
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.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2021 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Recommends smcl · 2023-01 · on “Australians Scour Desert for Dangerous Radioactive Capsule Smaller Than a Penny”
There’s a good Well There’s Your Problem episode about this, if people would rather see a video about it: [this video]
Recommends Pxtl · 2023-02 · on “Goiânia Accident”
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 occz · 2021-11 · on “The Goiânia Accident (1987)”
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.