Authorities scanning a remote Australian highway for a tiny missing radioactive capsule have found it by the roadside, after a challenging search likened to trying to find a needle in a haystack.
State emergency authorities announced the discovery on Wednesday afternoon, six days after the capsule, containing highly radioactive Caesium-137, was discovered missing from a package sent hundreds of kilometers from a Rio Tinto mining site in northern Western Australia to the capital Perth.
âLocating this object was a monumental challenge â the search groups have quite literally found the needle in the haystack,â state Emergency Services Minister Stephen Dawson said in a news conference Wednesday.
