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In the eighties of the last century in the city of Kramatorsk The case of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic which eyewitnesses still recall with a shudder, and those who I have not heard this story before, often perceive it as a creepy urban legend. Unfortunately, this tragedy has occurred. indeed, having crippled many human lives. Even on In the West, it is widely known as an edifying story about technology. safety in work in radioactive elements.
In 1981, in one of the apartments of a local new building under number seven eighteen-year-old girl died just recently distinguished by exemplary health. A year later, she died in the hospital sixteen-year-old brother, and a little later, their mother. Empty apartment handed over to a new family, but after a while their teenage son also mysteriously fell ill with an incurable disease and went into the world different.
The cause of death of all these people was leukemia – popularly blood cancer. Doctors attributed diseases in the second family to bad heredity, without associating them with a similar diagnosis in former owners of the apartment. You would think that the apartments were cursed and mystically sucked energy from the tenants, however reality turned out to be much more prosaic and scary, since everything the fault was not supernatural evil, for example, a curse, but unforgivable negligence of people, negligence bordering on a crime.
Scary radioactive capsule
Shortly before the death of a teenager, they hung on a wall in his room carpet. When the young man had already passed away, his parents suddenly noticed that a scorched spot formed on the carpet. Father of the deceased the guy got a thorough investigation. When visitors to an apartment experts turned on the Geiger counter, they ran out in shock and ordered to evacuate the house – the radiation in the house exceeded the maximum allowable level hundreds of times! No wonder people massively they got blood cancer here.
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Arriving experts in protective suits found embedded in the wall capsule with the strongest radioactive substance Cesium-137. Ampoule with this terrible nuclide had dimensions of only four by eight millimeters, however, emitted two hundred x-rays per hour, irradiating not only these apartments, but also three adjacent apartments. Investigation showed that in the Karan granite quarry supplying construction materials for the construction of Kramatorsk new buildings, in a similar radioactive was lost in the late seventies capsule used in the level gauge. She’s probably by accident hit the stones, from which they built a house, which was understandable business is unacceptable. According to the charter, career workers must was to search at least the entire mine, but to find a dangerous part, however Apparently, nobody began to do this.
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Specialists removed a piece of wall with a radioactive ampoule and sent him to the Kiev Institute of Nuclear Research. And the gamma-radiation in house number seven immediately disappeared, and live in it, finally safe. Between 1981 and 1989 from of radiation died six residents of the new building, four of whom were minors. Seventeen more people received disabilities. Punishment for such a fatal mistake no one has suffered.
