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Dear Jim,
Thank you for your following point "Do I recall correctly that many
people in Goiania wanted their property to be certified as "cesium free"?"
Not only property, but also products of local economy and persons we
have to certify free of Contamination.
I previously have learned about properties and products certification,
however, the fact to certify persons in large scale, was one of the many lessons
that we in Goiania, and I personally, didn't have learn before in any
literature.
People out Goiania was afraid of travelers, and hotel didn't want to accept
them. This was part of the discrimination that involved the city during the
early, intermediate and first stage of the recovery phases.
Just at the begin of the early phase, when people was afraid to buy meat
and super-market products, specially in the areas of the accident, I suggested
to the owner of a chain of supermarkets to promote a barbecue event in the open
market close to of Street 57, where de source was opened. All media and TV
were present and I was the first to eat the meat, and this was good, however not
enough to avoid antagonist remarks from competitors that reflected in the
State economic problems of exported products.
Many curiosity facts, including the object of your remark, I have
been discussing as lessons to be learned during my lectures, when
invited to talk about Goiania.
To those interested it is possible to download some ppt files about
the Goiania Accident, interesting to understand and to train, including
pictures, describing topics in the Goiania Accident as at http://www.min.uc.edu/nuclear/htmfile/cincinnati2000.ppt and at:
Our colleague Ted de Castro has offered also the following
site: ftp://ehssun.lbl.gov/tdcpub/ppt/
take care isn't http:// - there are in this site two files, because
the size and many pictures.
Jose Julio Rozental
Israel
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