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Search for radioactive capsule lost somewhere in Australia

A supplied image compares the size of the missing silver capsule containing radioactive Caesium-137 with an Australian 10 cent coin. It was lost during transportation between a mine site north of Newman and northeastern Perth, a distance of 1,400km. (Photo: Department Of Fire And Emergency Services/ AAP/Reuters)

SYDNEY: Mining giant Rio Tinto has lost a tiny, toxic radioactive widget in Western Australia, somewhere along on a 1,400 kilometre stretch of isolated highway through the arid Outback.

The tiny silver capsule contains radioactive Caesium-137. It could be lethal if someone finds and handles it, and a seemingly impossible search has begun to find it. 

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