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Radioactive caesium missing from power plant

The tube of caesium-137 at the steam power plant in Prachin Buri, before it went missing.

PRACHIN BURI: A bulky tube containing radioactive caesium-137, a highly hazardous isotope, is reported missing from the National Power Plant 5A Company facility in Si Maha Phot district of Prachin Buri, police said.

Pol Col Mongkol Thopao, the Si Maha Phot police chief, said that about noon last Friday Kittikhun Pattamakaew, 40, an employee of the company, filed a police complaint.

He said it was learned that day that a tube containing caesium-137 that had been attacked to a tower tank of the steam power plant was missing.

He said Mr Kittikhun did not know when the tube went missing or how it broke loose or was removed from the tank. He said…

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