Chinese Police Search for Missing Cesium 137

Chinese police are searching for a container of cesium 137 stolen from a construction site, BBC News reported today (see GSN, Dec. 19, 2003; BBC News, Feb. 11).

Chemical weapons response personnel were deployed with geiger counters to search for the highly radioactive material, according to a local police official (Elaine Kurtenbach, Associated Press/FortWayne.com, Feb. 11).

Officials in the central Chinese province of Shaanxi have asked anyone who finds the container to not open it and to store it in a safe place. A reward of about $600 has been offered for information leading to the recovery of the container (BBC News).

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