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A capsule with extremely dangerous radioactive material has been found in Australia, where it has been sought since mid-January, after being lost while being transported.
“This is good news. As I said, it was like finding a needle in a haystack. Now Western Australians can sleep soundly,” Steve Dwason, head of emergency services for the vast Australian region, told reporters.
The capsule had been lost during transport by the Australian mining company Rio Tinto, between the Pilbara region – where the company owns more than a dozen extraction points – and the city of Perth.
The searches were concentrated mainly on the Great Nortehern Highway, a highway with more than 1400 kilometers.
The small capsule (six millimeters in diameter and eight millimeters high) contained a “small amount” of Cesium-137, a radioactive substance used in mining.
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