A tiny capsule of cesium that had gone missing on an Australian highway has been found. The radioactive capsule was lost somewhere along an 870-mile rural highway. Australia’s head of Emergency Services called the recovery “extraordinary,” saying that “they have quite literally found the needle in the haystack.” Host Marco Werman has the details.
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