[ RadSafe ] Fatalities due to Internal Radioactive Material

[Elsa nimmo]

Hi Jim,

Thanks for the response!  My question was really one of curiosity.  We
all know about cases of chronic doses due to ingested material (dial
painters), but I couldn't think of fatalities due to acute dose of
radiation from unsealed internal emitters (in absence of large dose from
an external source).  

But yes, there was that terrible case with the teletherapy source in
Goiania, Brazil.  

Elsa