A Dangerous Radioactive Source Used in Nuclear Medicine Has Been Stolen in Argentina.
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According to the medical center from which the radioactive material was stolen, the caesium-137 was gel-shaped and was kept in a transparent plastic bottle
Argentina's nuclear regulator, ARN, announced on Wednesday that it had received a report the day before of the disappearance of radioactive cesium used to calibrate medical devices from a laboratory in Rosario, about 300 km northwest of Buenos Aires. The cesium bottle was contained in a cylindrical lead capsule with thick walls that block radiation. "Although the radiological risk is very low, if found, it should not be touched or tampered with,…
The Rosario authorities investigate the disappearance of a capsule with caesium-137 with an activity of 103 millicuries (mCi), a radioactive material used for the calibration of nuclear medicine equipment.The missing one was detected in a medical institute located in Rue Rioja at 1500, in the center of the city, and resulted in the activation of a national alert due to the nature of the element involved.According to the complaint presented to th…
The Argentine Nuclear Regulatory Authority reported that a radioactive source was reported stolen Tuesday in Rosario, a city of one million inhabitants located 300 kilometers from Buenos Aires.
By Germán Padinger, CNN en Español. Argentina's Nuclear Regulatory Authority (ARN) reported that a dangerous radioactive source was stolen Tuesday from a medical center in Rosario, a city of one million inhabitants located 300 kilometers from Buenos Aires. The stolen source is cesium-137, an isotope used in the "verification of nuclear medicine equipment." It was in gel form and stored in a clear plastic bottle, the ARN said in a statement relea…
It is a source of caesium-137 calibration that has disappeared since Tuesday afternoon. It is the same compound that caused a disaster in Brazil in the 1980s and that was portrayed in a series of Netflix
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