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Detailed explanation-1: -Western Australia found tiny radioactive capsule that went missing in January. Authorities in Western Australia say they have found a tiny radioactive capsule which went missing last month. The capsule was found when a vehicle equipped with specialist equipment detected radiation, officials said.

Detailed explanation-2: -Sometime between 10 and 16 January 2023, a radioactive capsule containing caesium-137 was lost from a truck in Western Australia. The capsule was being transported 1, 400 kilometres (870 mi) from Rio Tinto’s Gudai-Darri iron ore mine near Newman to a depot in the Perth suburb of Malaga.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Caesium-137 capsule lost in transit more than two weeks ago was discovered using specialist detection equipment which picked up the radiation. On Wednesday (February 1), authorities recovered a tiny radioactive capsule, smaller than a coin, lost in Australia’s vast Outback.

Detailed explanation-4: -A tiny radioactive capsule, smaller than a 10-cent coin and lost on a stretch of highway in outback Western Australia, has miraculously been found. The caesium-137 capsule, measuring just 8 millimetres long, was lost between Perth and a Rio Tinto mine site in the Pilbara.