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Speaker 1: Er and Amanda gem Nation radioactive capsule they found it.

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Speaker 1: This story is extraordinary. This was a capsule of caesium

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Speaker 1: and what or caesium is a radiation detector, a radiation

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Speaker 1: It fell off a radiation gauge, so I think you

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Speaker 1: use it to see how much radiation is in something.

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Speaker 1: It was being transported from a rio tinto mine to

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Speaker 1: a storage facility somewhere in Perth, and they say that

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Speaker 1: throughout the trip on the back of a truck, vibrations

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Speaker 1: caused some bolts to come loose and a capsule fell

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Speaker 1: through gaps in the casing and dropped off the back

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Speaker 1: of the truck. So it's it's a p sized capsule

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Speaker 1: and they had to locate it somewhere along an fourteen

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Speaker 1: hundred kilometer route stretching from the mine to this area

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Speaker 1: in Perth. It could have been anywhere for talking about

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Speaker 1: a needle in a haystack. And they it was very,

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Speaker 1: very dangerous because this is used in radiation engages to

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Speaker 1: measure the density of certain materials. But if you come

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Speaker 1: in contact with it, it can cause severe burns and

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Speaker 1: expose you to the equivalent of ten x rays per hour.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, you had to be when they found it,

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Speaker 1: which is amazing that they did. They could see that

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Speaker 1: it hadn't been interfered with, so no human had come

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Speaker 1: in contact with it. The environmental dangers we still don't know.

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Speaker 1: But they got scientists involved, they got special search crews,

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Speaker 1: they even had firefighters to come and be involved in

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Speaker 1: this incredible search. Can you believe they actually found it?

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Speaker 1: And so what was the exposure? Again, if you were

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Speaker 1: to you can cause severe burns and expose you to

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Speaker 1: the equivalent of ten x rays per hour of towel.

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Speaker 1: We're being exposed to lots of things.