Search for missing caesium-137 widens as police visit over 20 scrap shops

[webfact]

 

Police in Prachin Buri has questioned the owners of more than 20 scrap dealerships in the province. None of them claimed to have seen the steel tube containing radioactive caesium-137. Meanwhile, the provincial administration has sought help from neighbouring provinces in the search for dangerous material.

 

Pol Maj-Gen Vinai Nutcha, the commander of Prachin Buri provincial police, said today (Thursday) that police have checked footage from the surveillance cameras installed outside the power plant, to see if any trucks entered the compound to collect scrap steel, adding that police will question employees of the plant to find out if any of them collected the missing tube.

 

Prachin Governor Ronnarong Nakornjinda has asked local officials, such as village and sub-district heads in all districts, to tell residents to alert authorities if they came across any steel tube matching the description of the one which has gone missing and to stay away for it.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/search-for-missing-caesium-137-widens-as-police-visit-over-20-scrap-shops/

 

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[PETERTHEEATER]

This is serious and, until the source is located and secured, the public must be prompted daily via the media of the potential danger.

[Mad mick]

???????????????? it's gone already out of the country Burma or Malaysia could be anywhere by now ???????????? Dirty bomb  ????

[sammieuk1]

Urgent appeal to all honest taxi drivers "check your back seats" thank you!????  

[ExpatOilWorker]

Time for a little Nakhon-nowhere accident:

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goiânia_accident

[RandiRona]

Someone need to tell these Thai cops that is Caesium is not an engineless submarine which someone can sell at scrap shop!

[Burma Bill]

4 hours ago, Mad mick said:

already out of the country Burma or Malaysia

That thought also crossed my mind - Burma also North Korea???

[herfiehandbag]

9 minutes ago, Burma Bill said:

That thought also crossed my mind - Burma also North Korea???

Burma is a possible - I suspect the Burmese military (Tatmadaw) would be interested, purely for research purposes you understand - like research on what happens if you spread it around those pesky rebels...

 

North Korea, I suspect that they have ample supplies of assorted radioactive materials.

[hotchilli]

11 hours ago, webfact said:

Police in Prachin Buri has questioned the owners of more than 20 scrap dealerships in the province. None of them claimed to have seen the steel tube containing radioactive caesium-137.

As if they would.