Missing radioactive capsule found in Western Australia

Finding a radioactive capsule no problem for Australian scientists

Teams find Rio Tinto’s tiny Caesium-137 capsule after it disappeared on a 1,400km journey across the outback

The inside story of how WA’s tiny missing radioactive capsule was found

Just hours into their first shift, about 74 kilometres south of the Pilbara mining town of Newman, a team of scientists searching for a minuscule target heard a beep.

Radioactive Capsule Finally Found in Australia After Massive Search

A small radioactive capsule has been found more than three weeks after it went missing in Western Australia while being transported from a Rio Tinto mine to a facility in Perth. The cesium-137 capsule was found under extraordinary circumstances, and WA Emergency Services Minister Stephen Dawson said in a press…Read more...

How do you lose a radioactive capsule? Australian investigators are wondering too

The discovery of a tiny lost radioactive capsule beside a remote highway in Western Australia raises many questions -- not least how it escaped layers of radiation-proof packaging loaded onto a moving truck.

Australia's radioactive capsule en route to storage as investigation begins

SYDNEY -- A lost radioactive capsule found after a search along a 1,400 km stretch of the arid Western Australian outback is due to arrive in Perth on Thursday evening as investigators work on piecing together just how it fell from a truck.

Australia's Radioactive Capsule To Be Moved To Storage As Probe Begins

A lost radioactive capsule found after a search along a 1,400 km stretch of the arid Western Australian outback is due to arrive in Perth on Thursday as investigators work on piecing together just how it fell from a truck. The capsule - 6mm in diameter and 8 mm long or about the size of a tic-tac sweet - was found in the state's remote northwest on Wednesday. The week-long search retracing the truck's journey involved 100 people from at least fi…