RIO News: First pictures of the tiny Rio Tinto radioactive capsule recovered after ‘relentless’ sear - 1st Feb 2023, 11:05pm

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Just one week after emergency services began the mammoth task of searching an 870-mile stretch of Australian outback for a tiny but deadly radioactive capsule, it has been recovered.

Authorities confirmed on February 1 that they had "essentially found the needle in the haystack" after the piece –which emits the same radiation as around 10 X-ray blasts– was located two meters off the Great Northern Highway in Pilbara, 74km south of Newman.

The piece is used as a density gauge by minin...

>>> Read more: First pictures of the tiny Rio Tinto radioactive capsule recovered after ‘relentless’ search of 870-mile stretch of Australian outback: ‘We found a needle in a haystack’
 
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