Authorities scanning a remote Australian highway for a tiny missing radioactive capsule have found it by the roadside, after a challenging search likened to trying to find a needle in a haystack.
A tiny radioactive capsule that went missing last week somewhere in the desert in Australia has finally been found after a huge search effort was launched. Announcing its discovery, authorities in ...
was in one of the six teams scouring miles of road this week for the radioactive capsule lost in Australia's outback. She shares with Reuters how the device was found. Ryan Chang reports.
The gauge was found broken, with a mounting bolt missing ... the truck caused the screws and bolt to loosen, with the radioactive capsule then falling out of the gauge and off of the vehicle.
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“This is an extraordinary result … They have quite literally found the needle in the haystack.” A mining corporation apologised for losing the highly radioactive capsule over an 870-mile ...
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Regardless of the challenges they face in the search for the radioactive capsule, Australian authorities seem to be in good spirits, with emergency services personnel telling the BBC that their ...
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When the Australian nuclear capsule went missing ... for heart scans and to diagnose diseases. And radioactive material is found in household objects. Americium-241, an isotope that emits alpha ...
