Western Australian authorities are scrambling to find a missing radioactive capsule that is a fraction of the size of a 10c coin, conceding it was not found missing until more than two weeks after it left a Rio Tinto mine site.
The 8mm by 6mm capsule is a 19-becquerel caesium 137 ceramic...
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From the depths of a shipment of scrap metal, a radioactive signal.
While false alerts can sometimes be triggered, this one was not one of them.
Metal bars embedded with uranium had made the 3,700-mile journey to London from Pakistan, via Muscat in Oman.
Had it not been intercepted by Border...
One month after a mysterious radiation cloud was observed over Europe, whose source remained unknown last week speculation emerged that it may have been the result of a "nuclear accident" in Russia or Kazakhstan, on Tuesday Russian authorities on Tuesday confirmed the previous reports of a spike...
The latest measurements are over seven times the previously measured high—enough to fry a robot in two hours :eek:
Radiation levels recorded inside Fukushima's crippled nuclear power station are at the highest levels since its catastrophic meltdown in 2011.
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