Radioactive material missing en route to Michigan, NRC says

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Karol Cummins
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Radioactive material headed to MI from an OH company never made it to its destination, per a filing by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, prompting one expert to call the mishap "inevitable" considering the millions of shipments of the material each yr.

Radioactive material missing en route to Michigan, NRC says
The NRC reported the carrier of the radioactive material "believes the material was delayed at their facility' and that on July 20, the 'package could not be located."
detroitnews.com
9:27 PM · Jul 29, 2021

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2021/07/29/radioactive-material-missing-michigan-nrc-says/5411807001/

Radioactive material headed to Michigan from an Ohio company never made it to its destination, according to a filing by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, prompting one expert to call the mishap "inevitable" considerinof the millions of shipments of the material each year.

In its "Current Event Notification" report for Wednesday, the commission that regulates commercial nuclear power plants and other civilian uses of nuclear materials in the United States said the Ohio Bureau of Radiation Protection had informed officials about a missing shipment involving Prime NDT Services Inc.

Prime NDT Services is an Ohio-based inspection company that performs testing services in the energy and industrial industries, according to its Facebook page, many involving pipelines and other energy industry equipment.

The Ohio radiation bureau learned from Prime NDT that a source of Iridium-192 was shipped through an unidentified carrier on July 12 from a facility in Strasburg, Ohio, to a facility in Michigan, the NRC said.

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[Stinky The Clown]

1. Makes one wonder: Nefarious or Stupidity?

[eppur_se_muova]

2. I generously allow that it might be both. nt

[Throck]

3. Flux Capacitor?

[ecstatic]

4. Extremely disturbing article

The material also could be used in what is known as "dirty bombs."

Isn't it time to put out an APB alert? What if it's not just a mishap and the shipment was hijacked/stolen?

[CentralMass]

5. WTF