For instance, the narrative ‘The incredible case of the radioactive man’ is the last one
of the unit. It is presented orally by the instructors and complemented with a selection of
newspaper clippings and technical information from the Chilean Commission of
Nuclear Energy. It revolves around the so-declared ‘radiological accident’ that
occurred in the Valley of Itata (Commune of Ra´nquil, Province of N˜ uble, Region of
Biobı´o), Chile, on the 14th and 15th of December of 2005.2 In a cellulose plant under
construction, worker Miguel A ´ ngel Fuentes Oyarce got severely irradiated by a
misplaced industrial source of iridium-192 for gammagraphy.