Mining company 'sorry' for losing radioactive capsule in Western Australia

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The solid, silver-coloured cylinder is smaller than a human fingernail but authorities say it could cause acute radiation sickness.

MINING GIANT RIO Tinto has apologised for losing a tiny but dangerously radioactive capsule that fell off a truck along a 1,400-kilometre-long stretch of road in Western Australia.

“We have launched our own investigation to understand how the capsule was lost in transit,” he added. ‘Radiation sickness’ “If you have it long enough near you, it could cause what is known as acute radiation sickness,” Western Australia’s chief health officer Andrew Robertson said when the public were first alerted on Friday.

Officials in high-visibility yellow vests were seen walking along key stretches of the road – such as where the truck had stopped – but the capsule remains missing.

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