A group representing Prachin Buri’s residents have formally lodged a complaint with the parliamentary Committee on Land, Natural Resources and the Environment over the disappearance of a caesium-137 cylinder from a power plant in the province.
It was received by the committee’s vice president, Marut Patchathosingh, at the parliament on Monday.
The radioactive cylinder in question went missing from a power plant on Feb 23, but authorities weren’t notified until March 10. After days of frantic searching, authorities detected traces of irradiated red dust at a nearby smelter, which suggested the caesium-137 tube somehow ended up in the smelter’s furnace.
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