In March 2017, thieves made off with radiation detectors and small disks of radioactive plutonium and cesium that were stashed in the back of a rental car, the Center for Public Integrity reported on Monday. The gear had belonged to two Idaho National Laboratory employees, who’d been sent to recover radioactive materials from a lab in Texas.
The employees’ tools for the mission? Radiation detectors and dime-sized disks of plutonium and cesium used to make sure the detectors were working properly. But the entire kit was stolen from their rental car when it was parked at a Marriott in San Antonio, Texas. The theft was immediately reported to law enforcement and the Department of Energy, and it didn’t put the public at risk, according to a...
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