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Theft of radioactive material in Tammiku

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The theft of radioactive material in Tammiku took place in 1994. A large caesium-137 source was stolen from a nuclear waste storage facility by scrap metal scavengers in Tammiku, Männiku, Saku Parish, Estonia. The man who carried the source home received a 4,000 rad whole-body dose and died 12 days after stealing the source.[1] In addition to the one human casualty, five people got irradiated and one dog died.[2]

The storage facility was decommissioned in 2008 and 55TBq worth of radioactive waste was sorted and disposed of.[3].

References

  1. ^ The Radiological Accident in Tammiku (PDF) (Report). IAEA. 1998. ISBN 92-0-100698-5. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2013-07-29. Retrieved 2013-06-13.
  2. ^ http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nuclear/radevents/1994EST1.html (retrieved 08.27.2021)
  3. ^ https://www.postimees.ee/611404/tammikult-teisaldati-eesti-ohtlikemad-radioaktiivsed-jaatmed
  • [1] Robert Johnston. Tammiku stolen source, 1994. Johnston's Archive.
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