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by derjames 1683 days ago
This reminds me about the Juarez incident. https://culturacolectiva.com/history/cobalt-60-ciudad-juarez...
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That article talks about an "engine head" of Co-60. That's not a correct translation. The radiotherapy unit has a Co-60 source in it, and it is called a "head", but there is no engine. You just open the doors and shine the source onto a patient for a carefully calculated number of seconds, then shut the doors. It works in an almost identical way to the Cs-137 source from above.