Radioactive Cesium-137 Device Missing from Thai Steam Plant

Radioactive Cesium-137 Device Missing from Thai Steam Plant

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Local Thai media is reporting that a device used at a steam power plant in Prachin Buri Province has gone missing. The device, "used to detect steam leaks at the plant", reportedly comprises Cesium-137 which is a radioactive isotope of cesium that is formed as one of the more common fission products by the nuclear fission of uranium-235 and other fissionable isotopes in nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons.

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