searching for a needle in a haystack? Hold our beer!

[ShortForBob]

Urgent search underway for tiny capsule that emits 10 X-rays' worth of radiation every hour

WA authorities are desperate to find a tiny, silver capsule emitting dangerous amounts of radiation which was lost while being transferred from a mine site.

www.abc.net.au

Apparently it fell through a bolt hole in a truck somewhere in Western Australia.

If found, please return to Rio Tinto wrapped in tin foil.

The radioactive capsule could be anywhere along the more than 1,400 km journey between Malaga, in Perth and Newman in WA's remote north.

Edited for sarc

 

[Goodvibes]

Notable, but blown out of proportion.

I used to use those, they are part of equipment to measure the density of pavements and earthworks. Make a hole, lower the source down the hole a defined distance and measure the radiation coming through the material. Lass radiation the denser the material.

Normally completely and safely enclosed in the tip of a stainless steel rod, have no idea why one would be floating about the back of a truck. Replacing them in the equipment can normally only be done in special circumstances. I had one of ours run over by a road roller once while, the rod was extended, in the middle of a small town! Only caused a commotion on the construction job, maybe that's why I'm so fucked up I hear you say?

I'm guessing that someone is in a lot of trouble. They will only find it with a Geiger Counter, or a US Spy satellite.

EDIT: The tin foil (aluminium) won't do much. That shit will go straight through that.

 

[ShortForBob]

EDIT: The tin foil (aluminium) won't do much. That shit will go straight through that.

What a shame.

 

[veni vidi vici]

“Please return it “
Lol … what is the half life?
Symbolic of how your tax dollars are spent/ handled

 

[Virgulino Ferreira]

Urgent search underway for tiny capsule that emits 10 X-rays' worth of radiation every hour

WA authorities are desperate to find a tiny, silver capsule emitting dangerous amounts of radiation which was lost while being transferred from a mine site.

www.abc.net.au

Australia is missing a capsule of Caesium-137, 19 gigabecquerel worth of it.

A cautionary reminder:

One of the world's worst nuclear accidents happened in Brazil, in 1987, with a misplaced capsule of cesium-137, worth 50 terabecquerels.

4 people died in a short time, 249 people contaminated, 112,000 people tested for radiation. The costs of the clean-up were tremendous. The consequences and doubts remain to this day.

 

[LB 15]

maybe that's why I'm so fucked up I hear you say?

No, that thought never crossed my mind. Did you swallow much of it?

 

[LB 15]

Meli rather than using this as a reason to start your daily attention whoring thread, why don't you do something useful for once and go look for it? But if you do find it and the radiation causes you to grow a second head, we don't need any selfies of it.
Thanks in advance.

 

[veni vidi vici]

 

[Fah Kiew Tu]

Meli rather than using this as a reason to start your daily attention whoring thread, why don't you do something useful for once and go look for it? But if you do find it and the radiation causes you to grow a second head, we don't need any selfies of it.
Thanks in advance.

I sincerely trust that doesn't happen. Tasmanians get enough shit put on them already, the last thing the place needs is people thinking Meli was one. We do have SOME standards.

FKT

 

[veni vidi vici]

I sincerely trust that doesn't happen. Tasmanians get enough shit put on them already, the last thing the place needs is people thinking Meli was one. We do have SOME standards.

FKT

Are you learning Chinese or are you going to be too old and of no use for the greater good

 

[Goodvibes]

No, that thought never crossed my mind. Did you swallow much of it?

At least I can work out how to update the image in my profile.

WTF happened? Punishment for posting bullshit?

 

[Goodvibes]

Been thinking that there has to be more to this.

Again, can't think of s single scenario where one of these would fall out the back of a ute. They are contained inside a machine for obvious reasons. Retracted into a shielded unit.

Helicopter with sensors could locate this if it was on or near a roadway. Will be interesting to learn who has been playing silly buggers. Only people with training can sign one of those out, when in use there are signs up and the vehicle carrying it is signed in case of accident.

Good news is that it is only a serious risk to the community if the capsule is breached, and you would have to try really hard to do that.

So the panic is the risk of liberated contents being used as a non-explosive dirty bomb by terrorists.

 

[ShortForBob]

Been thinking that there has to be more to this.

Again, can't think of s single scenario where one of these would fall out the back of a ute. They are contained inside a machine for obvious reasons.

Helicopter with sensors could locate this if it was on or near a roadway. Will be interesting to learn who has been playing silly buggers. Only people with training can sign one of those out, when in use there are signs up and the vehicle carrying it is signed in case of accident.

Hmm, my thinking too. Someone nicked it?
Ever tried trying to get the stopper out of inside a salt shaker?
And they are telling us that cylindrical object, rolling around a container managed to roll it'self upright and slip through a ?? 5mm?? 10mm? bolthole?

Search stepped up for potentially deadly radioactive capsule lost in Western Australia

Authorities have conceded the capsule of highly radioactive material may never be found after disappearing on a 1400km journey

www.theguardian.com

Latest news update

 

[ShortForBob]

Australia is missing a capsule of Caesium-137, 19 gigabecquerel worth of it.

A cautionary reminder:

One of the world's worst nuclear accidents happened in Brazil, in 1987, with a misplaced capsule of cesium-137, worth 50 terabecquerels.

4 people died in a short time, 249 people contaminated, 112,000 people tested for radiation. The costs of the clean-up were tremendous. The consequences and doubts remain to this day.

That's incredible and not in a good way.
Water soluble?

 

[veni vidi vici]

Hmm, my thinking too. Someone nicked it?
Ever tried trying to get the stopper out of inside a salt shaker?
And they are telling us that cylindrical object, rolling around a container managed to roll it'self upright and slip through a ?? 5mm?? 10mm? bolthole?

View attachment 571121

Search stepped up for potentially deadly radioactive capsule lost in Western Australia

Authorities have conceded the capsule of highly radioactive material may never be found after disappearing on a 1400km journey

www.theguardian.com

Latest news update

Why wasn’t it flown ?

 

[ShortForBob]

Certainly got people scratching their heads.

'This is a very dangerous material': Frantic search continues in WA for missing radioactive capsule

As the desperate search continues for a tiny radioactive capsule in Western Australia, the state's deputy premier calls for a review into how it came to be missing.

www.abc.net.au

 

[LB 15]

Been thinking that there has to be more to this.

Again, can't think of s single scenario where one of these would fall out the back of a ute. They are contained inside a machine for obvious reasons. Retracted into a shielded unit.

Helicopter with sensors could locate this if it was on or near a roadway. Will be interesting to learn who has been playing silly buggers. Only people with training can sign one of those out, when in use there are signs up and the vehicle carrying it is signed in case of accident.

Good news is that it is only a serious risk to the community if the capsule is breached, and you would have to try really hard to do that.

So the panic is the risk of liberated contents being used as a non-explosive dirty bomb by terrorists.

It was obviously dropped on purpose by the US military to kill dark skin people. Peter Dutton was no doubt involved as well.

 

[LB 15]

At least I can work out how to update the image in my profile.

WTF happened?

I have no idea. And, as it seems to annoy you, I could not be fucked fixing it.

Punishment for posting bullshit?

Says the guy on his 4th account.

 

[Goodvibes]

I have no idea. And, as it seems to annoy you, I could not be fucked fixing it.

Says the guy on his 4th account.

Ooooo it looks like I have really upset the upset able.

So what's going on LB? That chainplate leak you can't fix start an argument with the child bride?

You can tewl unka goodwibes, I won't tewl mummy.

 

[Goodvibes]

Hmm, my thinking too. Someone nicked it?
Ever tried trying to get the stopper out of inside a salt shaker?
And they are telling us that cylindrical object, rolling around a container managed to roll it'self upright and slip through a ?? 5mm?? 10mm? bolthole?

View attachment 571121

Search stepped up for potentially deadly radioactive capsule lost in Western Australia

Authorities have conceded the capsule of highly radioactive material may never be found after disappearing on a 1400km journey

www.theguardian.com

Latest news update

If there was a contractor, there isn't now, and they will lose this.

I was 27-ish at the time. The large roller first reversed over the witches hats then kept going over the testing equipment. Construction stopped, area cordoned off, some of the rednecks thought it was funni and a great time to have a smoke and get paid for it. Others kept a respectful distance. This had never happened before.

I remember the phone call to he who must be called in an emergency, well. Before mobile phones, relayed through the 2-way to Brisbane, so it went across every vehicle and office within hundreds of Kms radius of where we were.

Me: "Hey Pete, blah blah blah etc etc.."

Pete: "Shit! So the source isn't still down the hole is it? "

Me: "No. "

Pete: "Ahhhhh sweet jeeeeezzus, thank fuck for that!"

Me: "It's sitting on the surface with the unit, cannot retract it into the case because the rod is bent. "

Pete: " ..... ..... ..... "

Me: " Pete?"