Australia's nuclear safety agency said on Tuesday it had joined the hunt for a tiny radioactive capsule missing somewhere in the outback, sending a team with specialized car-mounted and portable detection equipment.
The capsule, part of a gauge used to measure the density of iron ore feed, had been entrusted by Rio Tinto to a specialist contractor to transport. Rio apologized on Monday for the loss, which happened sometime in the past two weeks.
The truck traveled from Rio's Gudai-Darri mine, north of Newman, a small town in the remote Kimberley region, to a storage facility in the suburbs of Perth—a distance longer than the length of Great Britain. "It will take approximately five days to travel the original route, an estimated 1400 km, with crews traveling north and south along Great Northern Highway," Department of Fire and Emergency Services Incident Controller Darryl Ray said in a statement late on Monday.
Authorities suspect vibrations from the truck caused the screws and the bolt to come loose, and the capsule fell out of the package and then out of a gap in the truck.
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