The Goiânia Accident Wasn’t a Nuclear Disaster. It Was a Betrayal.
The Goiânia accident wasn’t a nuclear failure—it was a systemic betrayal. A life-saving radiotherapy capsule was left abandoned, and when poor scavengers found it, they unknowingly spread lethal radiation. The real crime isn’t the poverty-driven curiosity of the victims; it’s the institutional negligence that created an orphan source. We keep building dangerous technology without planning for its end, and the world’s most vulnerable pay the price. This is a warning we keep ignoring.