Here’s a true story
from a reader of
THE SADDERDAY TIMES.

Do NOT take apart your smoke detector.
Do Not swallow anything you find in your smoke detector.

From
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_detector

This is the worst Nuclear disaster you have never heard of before. 

In 1985 the Goiania institute of radiotherapy in Brazil, moved locations. They left behind a Cesium-137 cancer therapy machine. 

Two years later on September 13th, 1987, two men broke into the building and stole the machine. The security guard never showed up for work that day.

The men wheeled it home and began to dismantle it. Both men fell sick that night.

Despite this they continued to dismantle the machine and by the 16th of September, they were able to punch a hole in the Cesium 137 canister inside the machine.

Inside the canister they found a bright blue powder. They started scooping it up. They shared some of the powder with friends and relatives. They painted blue crosses on their shirts and even used the powder as make-up.

As yet, no one knew what they were “playing” with.

The thieves decided to sell it to a local scrapyard. The machine was further dismantled by the scrapyard owner, Devair Ferreira. When he was finally able to release the blue powder himself, he was fascinated by it. Believing it to be highly valuable, even possibly supernatural, he invited family members over to see it. He passed the powder around the members of his family.

Meanwhile, the handling of the blue power had caused the thieves to lose fingers and an arm which had to be amputated. 

It was then sold to another scrapyard owned by Devair’s brother, Odesson who took a chunk of the material home with him. He was a local bus driver and unknowingly contaminated dozens of passengers. He’s also one of the most contaminated of the surviving victims. He says he can still feel the burning in his hands.

His six-year-old daughter even played with the blue powder on the floor before having dinner, where some of the radio active material had fallen on her sandwich which she then ate. Tragically, within just one month she passed away and was buried in a lead coffin, encased in concrete.

Nobody had known that the material was highly radioactive. As time passed, everyone who had came in contact with the machine or the powder began falling seriously ill. It wasn’t until a concerned relative had a feeling the machine had something to do with it and took some of the blue powder to the hospital to be tested. Doctors were quick to determine that they were suffering from acute radiation poisoning.

Over 100,000 people had to be isolated in the Olympic stadium for radiation screening. 250 people were found to be contaminated. 28 had skin related injuries from radiation and two men, one woman and one child died.

Over 40 homes and buildings had to be demolished. The remaining chunk of Cesium, as well as over 6000 tons of contaminated clothing, furniture, pieces of buildings and even dirt were packed into steel drums and containers and dumped in an abandoned quarry.

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