PRACHIN BURI: Local authorities closed a steel melting plant in tambon Hat Nang Kaeo of Kabin Buri district on Sunday after they detected caesium-137 there.
The finding by a detector from the Office of Atoms for Peace (OAP) happened when officials were combing through local steel melting plants in efforts to find a missing tube containing caesium-137, officials said.
The bulky tube of the radioactive isotope was reported on March 10 to be missing from a National Power Plant 5A Company facility in the 304 Industrial Park in tambon Tha Tum of Si Maha Phot district. It was about 13 centimetres in diameter and 20cm…
