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Deadly metal / produced by Bryn Higgins.

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Format:
Video
Contributor:
Higgins, Bryn., Producer.
Nettles, John, 1943- Narrator.
Series:
Academic Video Online
Disaster
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Radioactive pollution--United States.
Radioactive pollution.
Radioactive waste disposal in the ground--United States.
Radioactive waste disposal in the ground.
Genre:
Documentary television programs.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (27 min.).
Place of Publication:
London : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 1999.
Language Note:
In English.
Original language in English.
Summary:
When Mexican warehouseman Vincente Sotelo dismantled an unused hospital x-ray machine and sold it for scrap, he had no idea he was causing a radioactive spill 100 times worse than Three Mile Island. 6,000 pellets of cobalt-60 were spread across the USA and Mexico. The disaster was only discovered by accident.
Notes:
Title from resource description page (viewed Dec. 24, 2013).
OCLC:
867771171

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