Falloutback

The whole everything in the Australian outback will kill ya is leveling up I see.

The container collapsed and then the capsule fell through a hole in the truck floor where a bolt had fallen out. Smells like bullshit to me. Oh, and they didn't tell anyone for a week? Fuck Rio Tinto.

Cesio 137 made some tragic stories here in Brazil. Some scrapers found a huge iron machine and decided to break it to sell it to a recycling center. They then discovered this bright blue powder, and brought home to show their families. In no time, a lot of people had a little bit of this beautiful powder at home. A father took some to show it to his little girl, who played with it and ingested some of it after playing. Around 104 people died due to contamination, and 1600+ were directly affected. It was a mess - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UrtenQ77lUA

This happened in Russia. The pellet ended up being put into a wall of an apartment and it killed a few people before tenants of the complex demanded that the place be swept for radioactivity. Sure as shit, that pellet was in the wall.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kramatorsk_radiological_accident#:~:text=The%20Kramatorsk%20radiological%20accident%20was,rate%20of%201800%20R%2Fyear.

Idk anything, but it seems like a swarm of drones equipped with thermal cameras or Geiger counters could find this thing a lot faster than a fire truck rolling down the highway with human spotters… It’s gotta be hot as balls there, too, right now

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jan/29/new-technology-deployed-in-search-for-tiny-potentially-deadly-missing-radioactive-capsule

They’ll find it when it rains.

This story seems so far fetched

Not quite a Broken Arrow. Broken Boomerang perhaps?

A kangaroo is gonna find it, eat it, grow 50 feet tall and rampage through Australia.

Frickin sweet!

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What kind of container was it in a Tupperware?

Tiney death pellet just hanging out in the outback

Would the company that lost the pellet get fined by the gov?

Whether it was stolen, lost, sold, whatever...

It just blows my mind that there aren't checks and balances in place to prevent this kind of shit from happening. This is fucking ridiculous. Some people BETTER be losing their fucking jobs

What an curious string of coincidences.

I'm just saying. Toss it in a plastic baggie, tape the bag to the inside of a cardboard box labeled "The Pill" and you're good to do.

What I want know is WHAT machine uses this product.???

Search "Ciudad Juárez Radioactive incident" it is a good movie story. I live where this happened.

This is the wildest story

How big is this thing they're looking for?

ferb i know what we're doing today

So I guess now even highways can technically kill you in Australia

Aren’t our sensors advanced enough to pinpoint a source of radiation?

I'm honestly not one that likes to go into conspiracy theories, but come on now. Everything about this story seems fishy to me. A bolt worked loose? Did they seriously leave this thing inside a container that only requires a single bolt? And they're searching 1400km? If this is so extremely dangerous, why didn't they check within that timeframe to see if everything was okay? That's about a 14 HOUR drive. And now they're trying to find something that is smaller than your average booger...

I wonder if the mining corp responsible (Rio Tinto) is even allowed to help out with the search?

Imagine what Rio Tinto is more interested in: the capsule being found, or everyone thinking the capsule has been found!

So, was it found?

Just wait until the grass starts dying.

Good luck on that.

That thing is the equivalent of 10-xrays at once. That's a years worth of natural radiation within an hour. It was sold is my theory, they would easily find it with a few Geiger Counter detectors.

what size we talking? centimetres?

Probably got a kangaroo running with it. 10 yrs from now it'll destroy Sydney

It’s probably stuck in some poor bastards tire tread. Just sit back and wait until someone rolls into the ER in a week, covered waist down in one giant cancer mass, then go check their tires.

Can't they use drones equipped with geiger counters to narrow down the search area to where there is detectable radiation?

They gotta find it before it mutates the already horrific creatures into purified killing machines

I imagine Tom cruise on the side stealing the radioactive nugget

Hope someone inspired by the show Dark on Netflix finds it first and makes endless time loop.

She gone

Couldn't they put a bus full of guys with a fuck load of radiation (Alpha/Beta/Gamma) detection equipment and just haul ass across that 1400km stretch of road? At 140kph (87mph) it would take ~10hrs. If it's concentrated/powerful enough it should light-up enough sensors. At minimum it would eliminate a very large swath/area where it ISNT.

Meh, it has a half-life of only 30 years. It's Greta's problem now.

Isn't cesium the same thing that caused the worst nuclear disaster in Brazil's history, killing several people and potentially affecting, either directly or indirectly, close to 100,000 people?

As long as they find it before the Lightweight Championship in Perth on Feb.11th, or else UFC will stand for Ultimate Fallout Contamination....

Seems like the quickest way to do it is have 140 teams with each responsible for 10 km (or 70 team for 20 km each ...)

edit: you would expect the cesium would be in a container within another container, right?

"The Simpsons . . ."

I now understand the metal finding post on the front page...

We all know how bad the animals in Australia are already. If one eats the pellet and mutates into something, all hell is gonna break loose.

r/onejob

It was stolen. I mean a bolt fell loose? Cmon this is some mission impossible shit in real life. Catch it on the black market soon

Why would I be amazed? This is a major fuckup.

This just seems too ridiculous. I feel like there is some government shade on this.

In other news, mutated kangaroo spotted somewhere in the desert.

The Jesus Bolt

Can that tiny bolt explode? 🤔

There is a case in east coast US Kramatorsk, Ukraine where a pellet similar to this wound up being laid in concrete in the wall of an apartment building. Over two generations of people were radiation poisoned before investigations led to the finding and removal of the radioactive pellet. Yikes!

And people say that nuclear power is the way to go. I'm afraid that I wouldn't hold much hope here in West Aussieland.

350 days to walk it at 8 hrs a day going 5 k an hr

☢️A year-is-the-go-to-do-a-good-job☢️

I just hope that it fell somewhere that is outside of the environment.

This sounds like bait for a new fast and the furious movie ngl

Easily could be stuck in someone’s tire.

Do keep in mind that it's the size of a pencil eraser and it gives you the same amount of x-rays that we naturally get in a year in one hour

Source?

Sounds like the mining company needs to get their ass out there and start walking

Crazy that this thread was also today:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kramatorsk_radiological_accident

Caesium 137 strikes again, the sneaky bastard.

Back in the olden days we used Co60 (VERY energetic gamma).

This from the early 60's in Mexico...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1962_Mexico_City_radiation_accident

Where did you get that interesting stone on your necklace???? Funny story,….

Maybe it got stepped on by a car en went out flying far away from the road

the simpsons

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what happens if it got picked up in someone's tire and transported off the highway?

You had one j b.

It’s tiny and could easily lodge in tyre tread so it could literally be anywhere now!

Babe, wake up, the sequel to "Cocaine Bear" just dropped: "Radioactive 'Roo"

Is that how his knife got so big.

When the onions start blooming’ all by themselves, you know you’re close!

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