[jimworm]

The accidents you described didn't come from nuclear power plants. The Western Australian incident was mining equipment. The Goiânia accident happened in Brazil and was medical equipment. The Kramatorsk radiological accident was also mining equipment.

[itishappy]

I was imaginging insane nuclear laser drills, but...

> The capsule, part of a gauge used to measure the density of iron ore...

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/1/31/australian-nuclear-...

More info:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Australian_radioactive...

Terrifying Wikipedia rabbit hole:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_orphan_source_incident...

[patmorgan23]

There's an interesting YouTube channel called Plainly Difficult that goes over industrial accidents, many of them nuclear/radiation in nature. (https://youtube.com/@PlainlyDifficult)

Also medical radiation machines around the time that

[sbierwagen]

Fun fact: one of the few industrial applications of nuclear fusion reactors today is as pulsed neutron generators for excitation gamma ray spectroscopy in oil exploration. https://www.slb.com/-/media/files/drilling/brochure/neoscope...