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Recovery of orphan sources in Georgia
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2022 9:00 pm
by Fishnut
I've been having a tidy-up of my Watch Later list in YouTube and came across
this video which, being fairly short, I thought I'd finally watch. It shows footage of a team of guys going into the Georgian (country, not state) woods in the middle of winter in 2002 to recover some highly radioactive substances that are just lying on the ground. Does anyone know the background to this f.cking insane situation?
Re: Recovery of orphan sources in Georgia
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2022 9:07 pm
by Gfamily
Fishnut wrote: Tue Mar 22, 2022 9:00 pm
I've been having a tidy-up of my Watch Later list in YouTube and came across
this video which, being fairly short, I thought I'd finally watch. It shows footage of a team of guys going into the Georgian (country, not state) woods in the middle of winter in 2002 to recover some highly radioactive substances that are just lyin"g on the ground. Does anyone know the background to this f.cking insane situation?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lia_radiological_accident
"The accident was a result of unlabeled radioisotope thermoelectric generator cores which had been improperly dismantled and left behind from the Soviet era."
ETA Jesus wept, that's a hard read!
Re: Recovery of orphan sources in Georgia
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2022 9:10 pm
by Gfamily
Quoted rather than edited