• Therac-25 is a computer-controlled radiation therapy machine produced by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) in 1982 after the Therac-6 and Therac-20...
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  • Hospital was the site of two incidents, wherein hospital staff used a Therac-25 machine to treat cancer patients. Due to a coding error in the machine...
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  • crash landing that disintegrated it. A bug in the code controlling the Therac-25 radiation therapy machine was directly responsible for at least five patient...
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  • May, 1984. Between 1985 and 1987, a series of design flaws in AECL's Therac-25 medical accelerator caused massive overdoses of radiation on 6 different...
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    systems can be disastrous. Race conditions were among the flaws in the Therac-25 radiation therapy machine, which led to the death of at least three patients...
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    doses of radiation to patients. The most famous of these failures are the Therac-25 incidents. Peter G. Neumann has kept a contemporary list of software problems...
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  • crashing). Software bugs have been linked to disasters. Software bugs in the Therac-25 radiation therapy machine were directly responsible for patient deaths...
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    security Radioactive scrap metal 2000 Samut Prakan radiation accident Therac-25 "Sources and Effects of Ionizing Radiation: 2008 UNSCEAR Report" (PDF)...
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  • orphan source incidents 1990 Clinic of Zaragoza radiotherapy accident Therac-25 Blakeslee, Sandra (May 1, 1984). "Nuclear Spill At Juarez Looms As One...
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    Fabio, Adam (October 26, 2015). "Killed By A Machine: The Therac-25". Hackday. Retrieved 25 April 2021. Shum, Edward Y. "Accidental Release of UF6 at...
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