Truck Driver Radiation Poisoning

Truck Driver Radiation Poisoning

An unnamed truck driver in Russia was killed by 5 months of radiation exposure to 1.3 curies of cesium-137 source that had been put into the door of his truck around February 1995. He died of radiation-induced leukemia on 27 April 1997.

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