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Brazil: Energy, Industry, and Politics ft. Juan David Rojas

Nuclear Barbarians

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Brazil's Chernobyl

In 1985 a hospital in the city of boy ass left. A radiology capsule filled with CZM 137 was used to treat like cancer patients at plastic controlled dose. And for two whole years, this CZM was sitting there. Two burglars that sometimes called scavengers went into the abandoned hospital. Found the capsule thought it was something valuable and took it home started trying to pry it open. They started throwing up and they were like, Oh, I probably ate something. Sold it to the scrapyard guy who brought it home and his daughter thought it was like a beautiful berry dose. She died. The entire town was shut down around 120,000 people were. And

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