The Latest Breaking News from Narong Nakhonchinda

Sick kids prompt 'urgent' tube probe

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has ordered the national police chief to urgently investigate how a power plant in Prachin Buri province lost a 25-kilogramme tube containing radioactive caesium-137 after local children reportedly developed symptoms related to respiratory diseases.

Bangkok Post · Mar 25, 2023

Caesium-contaminated factory dust now safely contained

PRACHIN BURI: The Office of Atoms for Peace (OAP) said on Monday that furnace dust contaminated with hazardous caesium-137 found at a metal foundry in Kabin Buri district had now been safely contained.

Bangkok Post · Mar 20, 2023

Search yields no sign of radioactive hazard tube

Prachin Buri province raised its dangerous situation alert to Level 2 on Wednesday as the search continued into its second day for a missing bulky tube containing radioactive caesium-137, a highly hazardous isotope.

Bangkok Post · Mar 15, 2023