Date: 1960

Location: USSR

Type of event: ingestion of radioactive material

Description:

An individual suffered injury from injestion of 2 millicuries of radium bromide, resulting in death 4 years later.

Consequences: 1 fatality.

References:

• IAEA, 1998, Planning the Medical Response to Radiological Accidents, IAEA (Vienna, Austria), on line at IAEA [http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub1055_web.pdf].
• Mould, R. F., 2000, Chernobyl Record: The Definitive History of the Chernobyl Catastrophe, Institute of Physics Publ. (Bristol, UK).

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