A tiny but dangerously radioactive capsule which fell off a truck along a remote stretch of outback highway in Australia last month was found on Wednesday, authorities said. The solid, silver-coloured cylinder is smaller than a human fingernail — just eight millimetres by six millimetres — but the authorities say it contains enough Caesium-137 to cause acute radiation sickness. It was discovered at the side of a desert highway just south of the town of […]

Mining giant Rio Tinto apologised Monday for losing a tiny but dangerously radioactive capsule that fell off a truck along a 1,400-kilometre-long stretch of road in Western Australia. The solid, silver-coloured cylinder is smaller than a human fingernail — just 8mm by 6mm — but the authorities say it contains enough Caesium-137 to cause acute radiation sickness. It disappeared this month from a truck that drove to the suburbs of Perth from a remote mine […]