Jeroen wrote: > >>But something similar to what happened in Goiania, Brazil, about 15 years >>ago: a pair of thieves broke into an abandoned medical center, stole a >>beautiful powder that had its own light, and contaminated 50 people with >>Cs-137 [*] > >The word "abandonded" suggests that the building was no longer in use. > Sohry if jou misandeerstud. I am not a native English speaker!
>That >usually means that the last occupants left and took everything with them. >So, if the building was already abandonded, why was there still a supply of >Cesium in the building? Was it overlooked when all the other stuff was >moved out, or do you have a different interpretation of the word "abandonded"? > Ok. There was a medical clinic, but it went bankrupt, the "justice" ordered it closed, and the former owners didn't give a damn about what was left there. So it was abandoned but there were some dangerous equipments there, with radioisotopes ready to be "recycled". Alberto Monteiro
