Just one week after emergency services began the mammoth task of searching an 870-mile stretch of Australian outback for a tiny but deadly radioactive capsule, it has been recovered.
Authorities confirmed on February 1 that they had "essentially found the needle in the haystack" after the piece –which emits the same radiation as around 10 X-ray blasts– was located two meters off the Great Northern Highway in Pilbara, 74km south of Newman.
