Relief as Australia finds lost radioactive capsule missing for over a month
A TINY BUT dangerously radioactive capsule, which fell off a truck along a remote stretch of desert highway in Western Australia last month, was found today, authorities said.
The six-day hunt came to an end after a search vehicle detected radiation while travelling along the highway, with authorities now working to safely remove the capsule before taking it to a secure location, Klemm said.The solid, silver-coloured cylinder is smaller than a human fingernail — just eight millimetres by six millimetres — but the authorities say it contains enough Caesium-137 to cause acute radiation sickness.
Portable radiation monitors that can be mounted on vehicles were used to detect radioactive emissions across a 20-metre radius along the route, Western Australia’s emergency services said.
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