Posted on Mar 12, 2023
Device with sealed radioactive material missing in Texas
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LTC Eugene Chu
..."The health services department in the past described a similar device as safe if undisturbed. "The entire camera is stored in a locked half-inch-thick steel overpack box with radiation markings. Levels of radiation outside the camera, itself, are not dangerous," it said in 2020.
In spring that year, a radiographic camera was found intact in the community of Stonewall after it washed away in flood waters on board a contractor's pickup, health services officials said at the time, according to NBC affiliate KXAN of San Antonio.
Health experts believed no radiation had been released.
In February, a small, highly radioactive capsule that fell off a truck in the Australian outback was found at the side of a road after authorities scanned an area almost the size of California."
..."The health services department in the past described a similar device as safe if undisturbed. "The entire camera is stored in a locked half-inch-thick steel overpack box with radiation markings. Levels of radiation outside the camera, itself, are not dangerous," it said in 2020.
In spring that year, a radiographic camera was found intact in the community of Stonewall after it washed away in flood waters on board a contractor's pickup, health services officials said at the time, according to NBC affiliate KXAN of San Antonio.
Health experts believed no radiation had been released.
In February, a small, highly radioactive capsule that fell off a truck in the Australian outback was found at the side of a road after authorities scanned an area almost the size of California."
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