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UPDATE A power plant in Prachin Buri province in central Thailand has upped the reward for information on the whereabouts of a missing radioactive cylinder containing Caesium-137 from 50,000 to 100,000 baht. The Office of Atoms for Peace have checked CCTV and scoured second-hand shops in Si Maha Phot district to no avail. The radioactive …

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Well done Thailand.

Headline news for all the wrong reasons. You are masters at this.

From the photo, it was being given all the due care it needed too. 🥴

 

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35 minutes ago, Photobenzman said:

Why is it in inches and not in metric, Thailand has metric system as metering distance.

Let alone that the length is incorrectly reported, many other sources declare its length being 30 cm (ca 12 inches, not 8).

Besides, caesium 137 is NOT invisible. The element itself is metallic, but in the tube is most likely present as chloride (CsCl), which is a white powder, soluble in water.

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Stuff like that gets recycled at steel plants and makes all the metal they make slightly radioactive through dilution. Not great. All the new metal has to be found and disposed of. A small problem becomes a large problem. Open it and handle it? Very bad.

No mention of curie content.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_orphan_source_incidents

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