Thai authorities have expanded their search for a metal cylinder with radioactive contents that has gone missing from a power plant.
expanded their search Wednesday for a metal cylinder with radioactive contents that has gone missing from a power plant, warning the public that it poses a danger to health.
Ake Wongjinda, a public relations officer for the provincial government, said Wednesday that authorities have inspected locations such as junk shops, scrap metal yards and secondhand stores in Prachinburi and neighboring Chachoengsao province for the 25-kilogram- cylinder. A radioactive cylinder, 12 inches long and 5 inches in diameter has gone missing from a steam power plant in Thailand's eastern province of Prachinburi.Thongchai Keeratihuttayakorn, director-general of the Department of Medical Services, said Caesium-137 has similar physical characteristics to salt and can disperse easily if its container opened. He said it is used in devices such as ones measuring humidity or the velocity of liquids.
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