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The Goiania Incident / produced by Bryn Higgins.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Disaster
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cesium--Toxicolgy.
- Cesium.
- Radioactive substances--Toxicology.
- Radioactive substances.
- Genre:
- Documentary television programs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (29 min.).
- Place of Publication:
- London : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 1997, c1996.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- Summary:
- In 1989, a mysterious outburst of radioactive contamination in Goiania, Brazil brought panic to the streets. Shot on location in Brazil, this film recreates the disaster and the vast emergency clean-up that followed. It also focuses on a group of people who found strange glowing crystals which they gave to their friends and family -- gifts of death.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed Dec. 24, 2013).
- OCLC:
- 867771392
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