The news about a caesium-137 tube that disappeared from a power plant and is believed to have been melted at a steel factory is quickly fading from view. But the problem hasn't gone away and is likely to resurface amid anticipated protests as the government must find space to store the contaminated furnace dust.
Two weeks after the news first broke, 24 tonnes of radioactive dust remain at the steel melting factory in Prachin Buri province. It will stay there for another two months -- or longer, depending on when the Office of Atomics for Peace (OAP) finds a suitable storage site.
