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Disaster: Mexican Radiation Disaster

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

In 1983 a radiotherapy machine was accidentally sold to a scrapyard in Mexico. The result was what has been described as the worst radioactive spillage in North America - the machine was cut open, causing vomiting, skin lesions and sterility in workers at the site, and forged into steel, which was distributed.
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Director:
Kim Flitcroft
Series Producer:
Bryn Higgins
Source: Radio Times

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