Radioactive device recovered in northern Mexico
MEXICO CITY – Authorities say a stolen measuring device containing radioactive material has been recovered in northern Mexico.
The Interior Ministry says the density gauge was found Saturday evening in Ciudad Obregon after somebody told authorities a driver had left a black bag on a sidewalk beside a stop sign. It had been stolen from a Sonora state road works pickup truck in the same city a day earlier.
Sunday’s statement from the ministry says the device contained cesium, americium and beryllium. Such gauges are commonly used in road construction.
There have been a half-dozen thefts of radioactive material in Mexico in the last two years. The hazardous materials have been recovered in the previous cases.
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