The tiny unit, which is smaller than a penny, fell off a vehicle transporting material from a mine deep in the state of Western Australia to a storage depot.
The truck carrying the radioactive unit was travelling from a Rio Tinto mine in Western Australia to a depot in PerthAustralian emergency services are in a race against time to find a tiny but potentially deadly radioactive capsule that has gone missing while being transported 870 miles from a mine to a depot in the city of Perth.
The unit was lost after a screw became loose inside a large lead-lined gauge and it fell through a hole. The small silver cylinder contains caesium-137, a highly radioactive isotope which experts say cannot be weaponised. The Department of Fire and Emergency Services has deployed teams with handheld radiation detection devices and metal detectors to try to find it, but state authorities have been hampered by a lack of equipment and have called for external assistance.
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