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What the heck was that radioactive capsule emergency in Western Australia all about?

The last time "radioactive" was this much of an internet buzz word was in August 2013 when Australians were trying to search for lyrics to the hit song by Imagine Dragons.

Over the past week-and-a-half, a tiny radioactive capsule about the size of a Tic Tac that vanished in Western Australia's outback sparked an emergency public health warning across the state, and international headlines (and ridicule) across the globe.

This is how the saga of the missing capsule unfolded. Or, as the BBC described it: "How the "radioactive pea fell off the back of a lorry".

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