Mining giant ‘sorry’ over lost radioactive capsule in Australia
Rio Tinto says the object went missing while it was being transported 1,400km in Western Australia. …
However, exposure to trace quantities of the metal is like “receiving 10 x-rays in an hour, just to put it in context, and… the amount of natural radiation we would receive in a year, just by walking around,” said Western Australia’s chief health officer Andrew Robertson.
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