Half-Life Histories: The Lia Radiological Accident - Nuclear Bonfire

S1 E17
2023

On a snowy day in 2001, three men from Lia, Georgia stumbled across two metal cylinders. The ground was steaming beneath them. It would take the work of over 50 people and two years of intensive hospital treatment before the radiological incident was finally over.

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