And here we go again, this time in Thailand.
There’s also an orphan source (that’s the name for these things) loose in Houston, Texas since March 9:
This sort of thing is more common than most people thing, and certainly more common than anyone would want.
And more …
Two and a half tonnes of uranium have gone missing from a site in Libya, the UN’s nuclear watchdog has said.
Knowing the Libyans they probably got conned by an inventor and swapped it for a bunch of pinball machine parts.
There is a BIG difference between 2-1/2 tonnes of uranium and 2-1/2 tonnes of uranium ore. And the badly-written article is actually talking about 2-1/2 tonnes of uranium “yellowcake”. Which is an intermediate form of semi-refined product.
Still and all, somebody was willing to move ~5,500lbs or ~2500kg of dense sand-like substance to get this stuff.