You could compare it to looking for a needle in a haystack.
State emergency authorities announced the discovery on Wednesday afternoon, six days after the object was lost while being transported along a 1,400km route across the state, triggering a huge search., authorities released a close-up picture of the pea-sized capsule - which could cause serious harm if handled - on the ground among tiny pebbles.
The capsule, containing highly radioactive Caesium-137, could cause skin damage, burns or radiation sickness. It was discovered missing from a package sent hundreds of kilometers from a Rio Tinto mining site in northern Western Australia to the capital Perth,“Locating this object was a monumental challenge – the search groups have quite literally found the needle in the haystack,” state Emergency Services Minister Stephen Dawson said in a news conference Wednesday.
According to authorities, the capsule is believed to have somehow fell off the back of a truck while being transported during its trip, theMining giant Rio Tinto, which had been using the device in a gauge at its Gudai-Darri iron ore mine, said it regularly transports and stores dangerous goods as part of its business and hires expert contractors to handle radioactive materials.
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