Cesium 137

The World's Greatest Radioactive Disaster Outside of a Nuclear Power Plant : Nuclear Accidents : Atomic Accidents :: Nuclear Disaster

What if I told you that the largest radioactive accident happened in Brazil, not in Chernobyl?

In Cesium 137, a summary of the real nightmare in Goiânia, the reader will find the report of the biggest accident with a radioactive source ever to occur in the world.
Many readers and students know about the nuclear accident that occurred in Chernobyl, but they may not know that, a year later, in 1987, in the city of Goiânia, in Brazil, an accident as shocking as that in Chernobyl occurred.
In this book, the author, Leandro Luiz, who is a physicist, explains in a clear and summarized way about the accident with cesium-137, using reliable materials, such as: reports and photos from the time of the accident, basing his arguments on scientific articles.
Discover or delve deeper into this shocking story, a real nightmare lived in Goiânia.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Leandro Luiz, is a professor with a degree in Physics, a bachelor's degree in Physics, a master's degree in Science with an emphasis on Applied Nuclear Physics, a PhD in Physics, he completed a post-doctorate and has already developed scientific research in Applied Physics in several areas with the use of ionizing radiation, providing several scientific articles and books published and cited in Brazil and around the world.

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This was an interesting and tragic event. The tragedy was the he people that were effected by this disaster did not have a clue as to what was happening. My only problem was it would mention a picture but you couldn't see.