Harbin source accident, 1998 (original) (raw)

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**Date:**January 1998

**Location:**Nanjing, P.R. China

**Type of event:**source accident

Description:

Equipment failure involving a cobalt-60 source led to whole body dose of 500 rad to one person who developed severe radiation sickness.

**Consequences:**1 injury.

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