Last week, when the accident turned 38, the city’s Municipal Culture Council published an open letter to the platform expressing dissatisfaction
In June, he assigned that he had started the recordings of the radioactive emergency miniseries, inspired by the radiological accident with, which happened in 1987 in. Created by Gustavo Lipsztein, directed by Fernando Coimbra and produced by Gullane, the radioactive emergency plot follows the performance of physicians and doctors in the race against time to save thousands of lives and the city. The miniseries have in the cast names like Johnny Massaro, Paulo Gargulho, Bukassa Kabengele, Alan Rocha, Antonio Saboia, Luiz Bertazzo and Tuca Andrada.
However, the Goianos were not happy that the film was shot in and not. Last week, when the accident turned 38, the city’s Municipal Culture Council published an open letter to Netflix expressing dissatisfaction.
For the counselors, Goiânia is able to receive a production of this size, with qualified professionals, infrastructure, authentic locations and, above all, the emotional and historical bond with the historical fact. “Bringing the shoot here would not only be justice to our history, but also generating jobs, moving the local economy and strengthening Brazilian culture with more true and representativeness,” says the document.
“The accident with Cesium-137 was considered by the International Atomic Energy Agency the largest radiological accident in the world outside nuclear plants. He does not belong to a studio set up: he belongs to Goiânia, to his people, to his scars,” adds the letter.
Remember the accident
In September 1987, scrap waste pickers found an abandoned radiotherapy device at a disabled clinic in downtown Goiânia. The material was taken to a junkyard where the capsule containing cesium 137 was broken. The luminescent white powder was manipulated, distributed among family and neighbors, without knowing the risk. The result was the largest radiological accident in Brazil and one of the largest in the world, reaching level 5 on the international scale of nuclear accidents.
In all 110,000 people were monitored during the task force involving several local, national and international agencies. Officially, 249 people were contaminated, of which four died as a result of the acute radiation syndrome.
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Goiânia still today carries marks of the episode. The addresses of the junkyard and where the capsule was opened were dug 8 meters deep and completed. Today they remain a great emptiness as no work can be done there for safety reasons. The disabled clinic where recyclable pickers found the cesium capsule was demolished and the place gave way to the construction of the Goiânia Convention Center, inaugurated in 1994.
Abadiânia de Goiás, a city neighboring Goiânia, was chosen to receive the more than six thousand tons of tailings that were packed in concrete containers. Hosts include clothes, utensils, objects, pets, trees, demolition remains, etc.
Another point that tells the story of the accident is the Parque Cemetery, where the victims were buried, especially the girl Leide das Neves Ferreira, who was six years old when he manipulated the dust that shone. She died a few weeks later. The body was buried in a special lead -covered casket that weighed 700kg. Then the tomb was completed to avoid the propagation of radiation.
*With information from Estadão Content
Posted by Nátaly Tenório
