Australia's Lost Capsule Officials in Western Australia scrambled over the weekend to locate a tiny radioactive capsule believed to have been dislodged from a piece of mining equipment as it was being transported for repair. The effort is expected to be exceedingly challenging. The capsule, while posing a significant radiation hazard, is less than a quarter inch in size and was lost along an 8070 mile stretch of desert highway. So apparently this tiny source contains cesium-137 and was a part of a radiation gauge used to measure radioactivity in oil and gas processing plants. The device had been packed sometime in mid-January with the absence of the capsule noticed on Wednesday. Officials did express concern someone would pick it up without realizing its purpose. So the exposure to risk when staying about three feet away from this capsule is roughly equal to receiving at least 10 x-rays per hour. The mining company Rio Tinto apologized for the panic. Leave a comment y'all, what do you think? We all about the scientific life.