Theft of radioactive material in Tammiku
The theft of radioactive material in Tammiku took place in 1994. A large caesium-137 source was stolen from a nuclear waste storage facility by scrap metal scavengers in Tammiku, Männiku, Saku Parish, Estonia. The man who carried the source home received a 4,000 rad whole-body dose and died 12 days after stealing the source. In addition to the one human casualty, five people were irradiated and one dog died. The storage facility was decommissioned in 2008 and 55TBq worth of radioactive waste was sorted and disposed of. Theft of radioactive material in Tammiku