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Hazardous material experts searching for 8mm by 6mm capsule believed to have fallen from truck as it was travelling from Pilbara to Perth.

“As a source, it emits both beta rays and gamma rays. “That’s obviously a long-term risk. “Our concern is that someone will pick it up, not knowing what it is,” he said. “They may think it is something interesting and keep it, or keep it in their room, keep it in their car, or give it to someone. “One of the long-term risks of exposed to a source like this is cancer,” Robertson said. Hazardous material experts are searching for the 8mm by 6mm capsule, which is believed to have fallen from a truck as it was travelling the 1,400km between a mine site north of Newman in the Pilbara and a depot in Perth.

WA authorities are desperate to find a tiny, silver capsule emitting dangerous amounts of radiation which was lost while being transferred from a mine site.

It is 1,400 kilometres between the mine site … "There are challenges here. "The start and finish of the transportation from the mine site north of Newman, and the transport depot in Perth, are among some of the locations that are searched, and being searched yesterday, but the capsule remains unfound," he said.

A tiny radioactive capsule has been lost between a mine in Western Australia's Pilbara region and Perth, sparking an urgent hazmat health warning.

"Do not touch or pick it up. "If you are very close to the material or touching it, the radiation risk increases immensely and could cause serious damage to your health, including causing radiation burns to the skin." "If you have touched the material, or have been close to it for an extended period, contact your local health practitioner or visit a hospital emergency department and tell them that you think you may have been exposed to radioactive material.

A radioactive capsule the size of a 10-cent coin has been lost somewhere between a Pilbara mine and Perth in Western Australia. It has sparked a nationwide ...

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Risk to the general community is relatively low. “The capsule is small, round and silver. A small capsule filled with a radioactive substance has been lost in transit from Newman to Perth, prompting a public health warning by the Department of Fire and Emergency Services and a warning from the state’s top doctor that exposure to it may cause radiation illness.

Fire and Emergency Services official says capsule left Rio Tinto mine site on 10 January but was not found missing for 15 days.

“If you are further than five metres away from the source, certainly if you are more than 20 metres away from the source, it will pose no danger to you,” he said. “Rio Tinto was informed of the missing capsule by a contractor on January 25,” a spokesman said. “If you see it [or] identify it, move away from the source, contact 13DFES and report it. “We have continued the search on strategic sites along the route that the vehicle had taken, concentrating on sites close to high-population areas within the metropolitan suburbs,” he said. “If it were kept long enough and they were exposed long enough, they could also have some acute effects, including impacts on their immune system and the gastrointestinal system.” “What we are not doing is trying to find a tiny little device by eyesight.

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Don't put it in your car. Certainly don't put it in a pocket. Don't put it on your sideboard, because it will continue to radiate,” he said. “If you were to hold the source in your hand for a substantial period of time, you would start to notice some radiation burns.” Radiation Services WA general manager Lauren Steen said it was a “highly unlikely” scenario, due to the safety measures typically in place for the transit of radioactive materials. It was part of a radiation gauge commonly used in the mining industry.

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Credit: Department of Fire and Emergency Services WA An investigation will look at the handling of the gauge and capsule at the mine site, the transport route used and the procedures at the depot in Perth after it arrived on 16 January. "If you have contact or close to you, you could either end up with skin damage, including skin burns ... "We believe the vibration of the truck may have impacted the integrity of the gauge, that it fell apart and the source actually came out of it," he said, Rio Tinto said it contracted an expert radioactive materials handler to "package the capsule and transport it safely" to the depot and was not told it was missing until Wednesday. An urgent search continues for the 8 by 6 millimetre unit that is believed to have fallen off the back of a truck on its 1,400 kilometre journey from Newman to a depot in the Perth suburb of Malaga.

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Andrew Robertson, chief health officer and Radiological Council chair, in a statement on Friday. “We are also combing roads and other areas in the search zone.” However, risk to the general community is relatively low, officials said. “Do not touch or pick it up. Australia’s Department of Health has warned of the material’s serious health consequences. Western Australia police notified DFES and the Hazard Management Agency that evening.