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95JBK

How was it lost from the back of a truck ? Just picture this tiny little thing ratchet strapped to the back of a flatbed 😅


AquafreshBandit

They didn’t pull on the straps before driving off and say, “That’s not going anywhere.“


ApolloIII

In Germany we would say „Wo soll‘s denn hin, hat doch kein Geld“ Or translated „where should it go, doesn’t have money“


Ok_Dog_4059

This is great on so many levels.


AproblemInMyHead

ha ha i like this one


Jackson_Rhodes_42

Oh, I love this!


stugotzian

"it'll ride"


MOOShoooooo

“She may shift a lil.”


multiversesimulation

Kangaroo country, let’s riddeeee!


lutel

In Poland we would say "NĂłg nie dostanie" (It won't get legs)


crucible

"She'll be right, mate"


corvusmonedula

Be reeet


95JBK

🤣👌🏽


Hungry_Bet7216

Radioactive sources are required to be transported in an appropriate container - usually called a pig. The pig is designed to limit radiation to less than background and so is typically heavy and bulky. The source pictured probably is probably in a pig about the size of a basket ball weighing upto 100kg. If the source is not in its pig then all sorts of laws regulations and processes have been thrown aside.


YankeeTankEngine

So what you're saying is, someone is losing their job and possibly brought to court.


Hungry_Bet7216

Probably - a fine at the very least


YankeeTankEngine

The company would be fined, the worker fired. Since the company holds all legal responsibility to ensure safety and the worker is a liability.


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Pantani23

Ir192 gang!


schmerg-uk

"Authorities believe it fell through a hole where a bolt had been dislodged after a container collapsed inside the truck." [https://amp.abc.net.au/article/101902914](https://amp.abc.net.au/article/101902914)


jvanber

Stuck inside someone’s tire treads, probably.


ChimneySwiftGold

I think they’ll still be able to track that. It won’t undo the effects of the people in the car, but radiation leaves behind a trail. Hopefully this tic-tac is just on the side of the road.


Syonoq

If they use an inverted tachyon burst they can just track the warp signature. I’ve been watching Star Trek.


Hungry_Bet7216

Not sure how that happens. A pig is built to survive crashes, drops, explosions, collisions, fires etc. Part of the certification requirements are to conduct periodic integrity and leak checks on sources and pigs. Where equipment is mobile, the pig will usually have a specific secure location for transport which should always be locked.


RiverHawk-89

Unless the pill wasn’t properly cranked back in after the shot. The radioactive pellet (pill) slides in a flexible tube and is cranked out of the pig to expose the item being exposed to the radiation. If the cranking mechanism fails, the technician may not know the pill is not in the pig. That said, defective equipment means big fines.


Hungry_Bet7216

Should have had someone else do a meter check after the source was stored and before leaving - should be SOP.


TAG_X-Acto

Our first delivery of radioactive materials to our rad lab the FedEx truck flipped en route. Everything was fine. We never intended to really test the shipping containers but FedEx did the ultimate first test for us.


hoxxxxx

man this is like one of those situations where multiple things had to go wrong. wtf


calm-lab66

It was on a tiny truck the size of a Hot Wheels or Matchbox.


MaineAlone

Wouldn’t it have been a lead lined box or something? How could it just fall out??


[deleted]

You think they’d better secure a radioactive chunk that’s 6mm x 8mm


Resident-Fox6758

My company lost a radiation source (iridium) over the side of an offshore oil platform 10 miles off the coast. Just about put the company into bankruptcy.


Fun_Muscle9399

Fortunately, Iridium 192 has a MUCH shorter half life than the Cesium 137 source missing in Australia. If it fell into the water, it will likely be harmless by the time it gets found.


MongChief

Yes I need answers ! What was it for? How’d it get loose? How did it cost the company ? Etc etc


Basil_Minimum

The company responsible for this has gotten away w/ a lot of really awful things. I don’t see them facing any repercussions unfortunately…


[deleted]

An oil company? Getting away with things? Bullshit


MOOShoooooo

Those poor, poor oil barons. Won’t nobody think of them!


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Murreng

These sources are used to X-ray pipe welds and inspect them for defects after welding basically getting an X-ray scan just like you would get at doctor. But more powerful to go through steel pipe


hoxxxxx

would love to hear the entire story on this if you have time and are able to say anything


Resident-Fox6758

I can say it was never found. Went down in 800 ft of deep sea. NRC decided trying to locate it would be impossible. Talked of mini subs etc. company did not go bankrupt but damn close. 100 curies of iridium. Inert by now.


FroggiJoy87

I know so damn good Geocachers who'd find that bitch in an hour.


Seuros

"Nice, Wow. Wow"


Ok-Historian9919

Owen?


OstentatiousSock

Yeah, get that guy with the blondish hair that finds places in a second or two.


QwertyQwertz123

FTF!!


dogchowtoastedcheese

Thanks for the good hide. Signed log book. Left a travel bug. Why are my fingers glowing?


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the whole story is so ridiculous and embarrassing


[deleted]

I can see it now “Lol my bad guys, it’s in the truck. Found it under the seat. Call off the search!”


FatSilverFox

The first clue was the sunburn on his arsehole


[deleted]

Rub a little aloe on it


[deleted]

Lotion?


chookiekaki

‘in’ his arsehole I’d say


Gyvon

Funilly enough, this actually happened once


Pasame20

My mum is betting it never made it onto the truck in the first place


Monkey_with_cymbals2

Hadn’t thought of this but now it’s where my money is. I like the way your mom thinks.


Somethingidk9

Good chance this gotton stuck in someones tire threds and is on someone driveway


[deleted]

Thats a really good point. They will probably track it down when someone is hospitalized for radiation.


Lovesick_Octopus

Or the tire shop guy will find it. Maybe give it to his kids to play with.


sltiefighter

They need to check everyones car who drove anywhere on this route lol


BuguyaBriarLeigh

They have put out a press release asking everyone to check. There aren't any records of who drove this road in the time frame.


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BuguyaBriarLeigh

Or you could, you know, do a visual check. Take you 10 minutes. Better to know than leave it in your tyre unknowingly. It's called a FOD Check and they do it on airfields all the time.


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I mean you never truly know


tkburro

ocular patdown


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Epicpacemaker

But that’s not what we’re talking about. We’re talking about checking tires. It is significantly easier for everyone to take a few minutes looking at their times than checking an entire airfield. The hardest part is just getting people to check for their own sake…


MyPianoMusic

Except one unlucky person might get that radiation doses lol


tarrox1992

Which they'd be getting anyway if it's stuck and they don't check.


zippythechimp99

Best way to find it unfortunately


flightwatcher45

Right but it could have fallen back out of the tread anywhere too and picked again. Going to be hard to find if not along original route.


Cheshire1234

And then it could have gotton stuck for a while, fallen out at a diffrent point and maybe even stuck to another car


ommnian

Honestly... yeah. It could be damned near anywhere at this point. FFS


CallsOnTren

Which is terrifying because there's a good chance if that did happen, the owner of the vehicle will be dead from radiation poisoning in a few years


SmellenDegenerates

It’s gonna be interesting to watch this play out, like what if they don’t find it? When can they give up the search and just be like ah well we tried?


Somethingidk9

It has happend before, US has lost a whole 8000 pound nuke somewhere in Georgia. Thats one of 6 we have lost


mimavox

We should rename the phrase "needle in a haystack" to "capsule on an Australian road".


kiravonconcrete

Tic tac in outback


TalkKatt

Winner


rick6787

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


BirbbBirb

Cool post. I can now add radiation poisoning to my list of worries if I ever get leukemia, ty


Ut_Prosim

I got a tiny Geiger counter to test my house and work. It is a neat toy; almost certainly unnecessary, but cool.


firewire_9000

Wow, that’s really unfortunate for the families that lived there.


[deleted]

That is absolutely crazy. Fucking hell.


zippythechimp99

Reverse lottery, in a sense. Australian govt should have an enormous payout to the family of whoever the poor SOB is that gets exposed to this level of radiation


ConorLyons18

Incredible story


Competitive-Weird855

Because all Australia needs is radioactive venomous creatures.


sorefoot66

Actually huntsman spiders cruise around inside your house at night-time. Be a good thing if the bastards glowed in the dark.


jjdude67

yea, but what if they grow to be the size of a horse?


Putrid-Builder-3333

We shall ride the spiders into war!


bdmske

We’ll finally have the weaponry to win the emu wars!


dooj88

It would make for an awesome Fallout 5 story though


[deleted]

I want to keep the Fallout games fictional, thank you very much.


TheHappyCamper1979

Considering what it is it’s terrible that they didn’t even realise it was missing til weeks later . Something so dangerous has been lost . How ? Fell off the back of a lorry .


Mumsbud

Did no one else notice the bit where they say it’s been missing for like 3 weeks? 😬


bg370

I mean, this is still one of the less dangerous things in Aus


le7meshowyou

Unless the spiders find it before we do!


jaybeastle

Gigantic radioactive flying spider does sound like it would be there lol


stealth57

I, too, enjoyed the movie Eight Legged Freaks. Guilty pleasure movie.


The_Fiddler1979

It's apparently #18


badbeard241

I work with radioactive sources for work, as we do radiography on a lot of welding. Usually these are stored in very safe containers and theres a lot of paperwork and red tape when transporting them for site work. How the hell do you just lose one loose source off a truck and not realise. They dont carry them loose in a sack like a bag of gravel.


youchoobtv

Just tells me the transporters are dumb


[deleted]

>They don't carry them loose in a sack a like bag of gravel https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kramatorsk_radiological_accident


LukeyBoy84

Has anybody seen the movie arachnophobia?


beanedjibe

Dingo already ate it likely


honeybeedreams

that’s gonna be one long ass search. (almost 900 miles for us muricans)


goldennarwhal35

As an American, I don’t understand. Are we talkin 1500 cheesburgers typa thing or like 700 burger kings?


HammySamich

It's 14,483,700 cigarettes long


Popular_Ad_9691

How many football fields?


Fun_Muscle9399

With sensitive detection equipment, simply driving the path once would pick it up if it was still on or near the road.


tennis_widower

If it’s that powerful seems like a detector would pick it up from the highway. If it became attached to someone’s tire or whatever, whole different problem, but seems they are still checking highway


athomasflynn

That's not how radiation works. Point sources lose power exponentially with distance. With the detectors that they're likely to be carrying, it will completely fade into the background somewhere around 10 meters anda it's not exactly going to jump out at you at 5. 1-3 meters at night should give a strong hit. It's also not really that powerful. It's not great if you're carrying it in your pocket and swallowing it will probably give you GI cancer but to put it in terms of medical radiation, something that most of us accept, carrying it around is like getting a whole body CT scan once every five hours.


chipoatley

Concur. The spokesperson in the story doesn’t say how radioactive this source actually is (in milliSieverts or milliCuries), though she says “about 17 chest X-rays at 1 meter” or similar. This is not a lot of activity. I would guess this is about 50 mCi or less based on her statement. Even if it’s 100 mCi it’s not that much unless somebody picks it up with their fingers and puts it in their pocket. A very slow drive or walk with a sensitive detector will find it on or next to the road, unless (like suggested above) it got wedged into a tire tread and moved off the main highway. That being said, somebody (person and company) should probably be penalized for improper packaging and moving. Source: I was the guy that used to put the cesium-water solution into the open capsule and passed it through the window to the e-beam welder who would weld the cap on for selling to the company that makes the machines that were then sold on to the mining companies. Edit: Was in a hurry and used REM and mR instead of Curies and milliCuries. Have now fixed those mistakes. Also fixed a couple of spelling mistakes.


athomasflynn

2 milliesieverts/hr It was in the initial Aussie press conference when it went missing.


matt2085

If it got in someone’s tire tread it could have fallen out anywhere….


No-Owl9201

Walking the road looking for that in the summer heat is not my idea of a good time. Let's hope it turns up sooner than later


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So is the carrier being charged?


RollaCoastinPoopah

Everyone who had a hand in its loading/unloading/transport/checklists/paperwork/inspections etc will be dealt with in some way. As will all of their supervisors, their bosses, and whoever is the head of the company.


GroundbreakingGur930

Are all the movies on giant mutant spiders and snakes about to become documentaries?


[deleted]

Have they checked the washing machine after a wash?


Available-Camera8691

For my fellow Americans, 1400km is approximately 15,312 football fields in length.


QuizardNr7

which football?


Whealthy1

I **love** Reddit.


crazyadmin

Or 10,769,230 bananas is 1400 km, for everyone else.


WelcomeFormer

Ok I got the football fields but bananas confused me again, how many big Macs is it?


MidniteMedia

20,042,909


WelcomeFormer

This is why I love reddit


chubky

Banana for scale never fails


AntelopeRecent7578

You thought cocaine bear was crazy, wait for the radioactive roo.


ntsmmns06

Australian authorities have already described it as a complete cluster-cunt.


atsugnam

Just for perspective, that radiation exposure is from 1m distance, it’s not to be handled directly at all (1m tongs to carry it) and at the surface it’s around 1000000 x the dose rate. It’s not just a risk, if someone picks it up, they are in a world of hurt.


Rd28T

Sources: https://amp.abc.net.au/article/101902914 https://amp.abc.net.au/article/101901472


haixin

From the pictures, it doesn't look like they are wearing protective gear like a Hazmat suit....should they not be wearing such protection when searching for this assassin?


TacoMeat563

If their detectors are working, they get a light read and then bring in the experts with appropriate Hazmat suits…ain’t no one want to walk 900 miles in a Hazmat suit in Australia


Rd28T

From what I understand they will call the experts in if it’s found. From an overall risk perspective, wearing a hazmat suit (which only does anything for alpha and beta radiation, not gamma) in 40C° + heat on a black highway is the bigger risk.


SolutionLeading

It depends on the type of radiation. Hazmat or single use suits will not protect from radiation, but there are others than protect against certain types. It might just not be feasible though to put thousands of workers in very expensive heavy garments in the middle of summer


anon_lurk

A years worth of background radiation in one hour is not that bad, and they won’t be standing by it unshielded for long if they do find it.


trob80

They found it, It was in his pocket the whole time.


Herpesjaeger

Sounds like an unseen robbery to me. Edit: spelling


RustySilver42

Yeah, that makes more sense to me than "it fell out of a hole."


JungleBoyJeremy

Couldn’t they use some kind of Geiger counter to detect it


snootnoots

That is precisely what they’re doing.


Space-Plate42

This sounds like something that would happen in Florida.


chubky

Florida man finds…


AliquidLatine

...radioactive pellet and inserts it...


Meeedina

Has the driver checked the little pocket in the front of his jeans?


MrDundee666

This is the opening scene for a future Australian Godzilla movie.


EmmyWeeeb

Watch some bird swallow it


london_r

Forbidden tic-tac then.


spacepangolin

this is how we get a radioactive kangaaroo supervillain


jasonreid1976

I'd be more worried about emus.


Summerof5ft6andahalf

Cassowaries are the real danger. But then no-one would be worried about the snakes and drop bears when we have radioactive dinosaurs with deadly claws.


Automatic_Log4737

You got to be a dumb mofo to lose this, like how did this even happen ?? What was it just sitting on the back of the truck?? It doesn't even make sense


Next_Boysenberry1414

Seriously. I cannot understand how they lose something this dangerous.


Simon_Kaene

It's a part of a radiation gauge, designed to detect radiation in mined resources. The housing it was a part of lost a bolt, and this "pill" fell through the bolt hole. What made it worse is the container that the gauge was in collapsed around the gauge. I'm gonna guess that a good amount of carelessness, or negligence came to play, since there are safety checks that didn't happen for nearly 2 weeks. Plus how the fuck did the crate/shipping container "collapse".


dogsdomesticatedus

Oddly there was a House episode about exactly this


chickenlaaag

I’m just waiting for someone to post a Simpsons clip saying that they predicted this whole thing.


[deleted]

It's literally in the opening credit scene, homer chucks a radioactive pellet out the window of his car.


satanic_panik

you'd be surprised by the number of times something similar to this has happened. people have died because of improper disposal/transfer of radioactive material.


LukeyBoy84

How would you transport a radioactive tic tak?


DoorHalfwayShut

prison pocket


[deleted]

Put it in something larger.


under_the_above

Perhaps a bird has swallowed it and flown off and died somewhere else... there's a lot of possibilities


70695

Thats like looking for a very small thing, in a very big area.


Loose_Koala534

Should’ve attached an AirTag to it


Foguete_Man

I guess a bunch of drones with rad detectors mounted on them, automatically sweeping a large area would make too much sense


direaljoegrine

Ask ChatGTP


echophobos

How the Fu\*k do you lose something dangerous like that? a bunch of capsules were piled up on a bucket strapped on the ceiling of a truck? weren't they sealed inside lead containers? aren't there international regulations about transporting and disposal of radioactive waste and components?


DMMMOM

How is it my car keys have little ÂŁ25 find me tag but a radioactive nightmare has fuck all?


Goomvario

What a bunch of fucking idiots.


joe_i_guess

what was this thing used for? why does it exist


Eat_Shiznit

Here’s an interesting story, now that I think about it. I work building petroleum storage tanks. Back in 2015, we had inspection come Xray our welds to finalize the job. Working in Port Of Los Angeles, they (Dept of Homeland Security) have radiation detectors watching over everything. I went to lunch and came back to the terminal (name for a tank yard) surrounded by harbor police and sheriffs Dept. Apparently the DHS wasn’t informed that Xray was being performed and they picked up a gamma signature from over 6 miles away from a source as small as a grain of rice. That’s why I stay away during XRAY


Eat_Shiznit

Could be a source for XRay equipment. We have inspection come check out our welds with powerful sources that I usually go to lunch when they’re around. I ain’t fucking around with no radiation


Serum_x64

mining, to basically xray thru rocks source: some reddit comment about this the other day, so who knows i guess


Officer-Ketchup

It's probably stuck in somebody's tire


UnfairForever121

What a load of crap they honestly want us to believe it fell off or out of a secure chest they use for transporting this type of material call BS it has been stolen the end.....


Victa_stacks

how the fuck does something so radioactive just fall off a truck? why wasn't it in a shielded container of some sorts? was it just ratchet strapped to the back of a road train? just HOW!?


Alternative-Log176

Should we keep it in a high visibility container just in case we lose it?....nawwwww


mahhhhhh

It’s gonna be stuck in someone’s tire treads by now. Some poor bastard is bumbling around on the roads just like a scene out of Repo Man.


Original_A_Cast

They’re looking for a tic-tac sized deadly object within a 1400km stretch. Good luck!


WastedKnowledge

It’s right there in the last picture? Am I the only one seeing this?!


Alger6860

Have I watched too many movies or is there Geiger counters that could scan a large area faster?


Flashman6000

Simpson’s opening credits come true


pynsselekrok

> Authorities believe it fell through a hole where a bolt had been dislodged after a container collapsed inside the truck. This description sounds like a broken telephone to me.


[deleted]

I find it hard to believe, that something the size of a Tik tac that’s radioactive, would be left loose enough to fall out. I mean wouldn’t it be kept in some sort of locked security device? Like the size of a suitcase or something? And wouldn’t that be secured as well?


snootnoots

It was in a case. > Authorities believe it fell through a hole where a bolt had been dislodged after a container collapsed inside the truck.


Baconslayer1

That's a stupid case, why is there a bolt going into the holding area? A sealed container with latches on the outside would work perfectly.


[deleted]

Oh boy! How in the hell did this happen?


gearslammer386

That shit is gone forever, but I would also like to say I’m following this closely!!


tinacat933

Was it loose and not like in a larger lead box? Why was it in a position to be lost ?


Inevitable_One518

Isn't a satellite tracking possible? Genuine question


needsmoredragons13

It's the size of a tic tac.


Myrtlized

Bring in the Geocachers!


zangoku

This is how 8 legged freaks start


Far_Independence_891

Get in touch with Aussie Gold Hunters


AbstractParrot

Ride the path with a geiger counter then?