A New Radiation Detector

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Avoid being one of the mob who indulges in such pastimes.  Your life is too short and you have important things to do.  Be discriminating about what images and ideas you permit into your mind.

If you yourself don't don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.

It is the easiest thing in the world to slide imperceptibly into vulgarity.

But there is no need for that to happen if you determine not to waste your time and attention on mindless pap." - Marcus Aurelius

Missing Radioactive Sources - Updated (23 August 2018)

This is a horrific and very sad story, but it seems like every year somebody attempts a repeat :(

***UPDATED 8-23-18***

OK, so I see we've lost another one - this time in Malaysia.  This one is an Iridium-192 source for industrial radiography.  I'm cackling about the statement from the authorities:

"It cannot fall into the wrong hands as the consequences can be deadly" 

You knucklehead.  It's already in the "wrong hands".  It's been in the wrong hands since the moment you lost custody of it.  The question we are left with right now is whether the "wrong hands" are (best case) thieves, or (worst case) terrorists.

It boggles the mind that such dangerous material gets stolen so easily.  If this were high explosives, or even just harmless money, there would be several armed guards constantly monitoring it, or it would be in a vault somewhere.  It's time to be much less stupid with such dangerous material.