Radioactive Emergency
It’s a 5-episode brazilian series on Netflix and it is receiving positive reviews. I haven’t watched it yet, but it is based on real events, the “Goiânia accident”, considered to be one of the world's worst radiological incidents. Some even says it was the worst radioactive incident not involving a nuclear power plant in history.
It happened in 1987, Goiânia (Brazil), when two men found a radiotherapy device at an abandoned hospital and decided to take it apart, hoping to sell the metal. Inside, they discovered a beautiful glowing blue powder and took it to their homes, showing the salt to their families and friends. People touched and spread that powder around. That salt was a "highly radioactive caesium chloride", which contained Cesium-137. As a result four people died, and more than 112,000 people were examined and among them 249 were contaminated.
Anything contaminated was destroyed and buried in a radioactive waste site. Personal belongings, vehicles, soil and entire houses amounted to about 6,000 tons of radioactive waste, which will still take around 200 years to decay.
It might be interesting to check out.