DefenceTalkAuthorities issued an alert for several Mexican states Wednesday after thieves snatched potentially deadly radioactive material used for industrial radiography. The iridium-192 source, marked X-571, was inside a container when it was stolen on Monday from a truck in Cardenas, a town in southern Tabasco state, the interior ministry said in a statement. “This source […]https://www.defencetalk.com/mexico-issues-alert-over-stolen-radioactive-material-63876/

DefenceTalkMexican authorities scrambled Wednesday to find a stolen truck containing “extremely dangerous” radioactive material used in medical treatment, officials said. The white Volkswagen Worker truck was transporting a “teletherapy source” containing cobalt-60 when it was stolen in the central Hidalgo state town of Tepojaco, north of Mexico City, the International Atomic Energy Agency said. The […]https://www.defencetalk.com/truck-with-dangerous-radioactive-material-stolen-in-mexico-49831/

DefenceTalkMexico’s nuclear commission said Wednesday the radioactive material inside a stolen truck weighed 60 grams, a quantity experts said is enough to make a “dirty bomb.” Jaime Aguirre Gomez, radiological security director at the National Commission for Nuclear Safety and Safeguards, told AFP the cobalt-60 in the medical teletherapy device has a radioactivity level of […]https://www.defencetalk.com/stolen-isotope-in-mexico-enough-for-dirty-bomb-experts-49828/