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The theft of radioactive material in Tammiku, often called the Tammiku nuclear accident, took place in 1994. Three brothers in Tammiku, Männiku, Saku Parish, Estonia, who were scrap metal scavengers, entered a fenced area in the woods and broke into a small shed that was seemingly abandoned, with stairs leading to an underground hall. The brothers did not know that the buildings were nuclear waste storage facilities. One of the brothers, Ivan, suffered a crush injury when a drum fell onto him. The brothers placed some pieces of metal into their pockets and went home, planning to return later. Ivan placed a metal cylinder in his pocket, not knowing that it was a strong caesium-137 radioactive source that was released from a container broken by the falling drum. He received a 4,000 rad whole-body dose and died 12 days later. Only after Ivan's family's dog died, and Ivan's stepson showed radiation burn on his hands, was the cause of Ivan's death identified. The delay in information was due to the brothers' reluctance to admitting to the break-in.
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