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You'd need to eat about 10 million bananas to receive a dose of radiation that causes sickness. A single banana delivers just 0.1 microsieverts.
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🗓️ This Day - February 24
Eisenhower's 'Atoms for Peace' speech
President Dwight Eisenhower delivers his landmark 'Atoms for Peace' address to the UN General Assembly, proposing the creation of an international atomic energy agency to promote peaceful uses of nucl…
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Goiânia Accident
📍 Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
In September 1987, scavengers broke into an abandoned radiotherapy clinic in Goiânia, Brazil, and removed a caesium-137 teletherapy source. Unaware of its danger, they sold the device to a junkyard where the glowing blue caesium powder was passed around and handled by curious residents over several days.
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