If that’s the case, good. Until they recover it, and show it has been recovered, it really could be in anybody’s hands.
The truck could be radioactive now.
Yeah, I believe this report...really I do...Well almost really!
That radioactive state is something I would not wish on any living human, not even my worst enemy. That still one of Gods children.
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Muy Caliente
“The truck was found on Wednesday close to where it was stolen outside Mexico City. The thieves removed the radioactive material from a protective case, exposing them to dangerous levels of radiation then dumped it less than a mile away.”
As some commentator noted: “If they’re not dead already, then local hospitals need to be reassured that people do not become radioactive unless they eat or inhale a radioactive source; but also, if they get in a patient who shows the symptoms of full blown ebola, we’ve got our man.”
Not the first time. In December 1983 in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, a local thief stole materials from a discarded radiation therapy machine containing 6,000 pellets of cobalt-60. The machine was in a junkyard. This guy escaped harm, but his helper eventually died of cancer and countless people there were rendered sterile or developed other kinds of medical problems. The transport of the material led to severe contamination of his truck. When the truck was scrapped, it in turn contaminated another 5,000 metric tons of steel. This steel was used to manufacture kitchen and restaurant table legs and rebar, some of which was shipped to the U.S. and Canada. The incident was discovered months later when a truck delivered contaminated building materials to the Los Alamos National Laboratory drove through a radiation monitoring station. Contamination was later measured on roads used to transport the original damaged radiation source. Some pellets were actually found embedded in the roadway. In the state of Sinaloa, 109 houses were condemned due to use of contaminated building material. This incident prompted the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Customs Service to install radiation detection equipment at all major border crossings.