Hunt for missing radioactive Caesium intensifies in Thailand as health worries grow

This image made on March 14, 2023, from the 2022 video provided by the Prachinburi Provincial Public Relations Office, shows a radioactive cylinder, a steel tube, 30cm long and 13cm diameter that has gone missing from a steam power plant in Thailand's eastern province of Prachinburi.- The Prachinburi Provincial Public Relations Office via AP

BANGKOK (The Nation/Asia News Network): The hunt for a missing tube of dangerous radioactive material continued in Prachinburi on Wednesday (March 15), after the province issued a level 2 disaster alert.

The tube of caesium-137 was discovered missing from a coal-fired power plant in Sri Maha Pho district, 160km east of Bangkok, on Friday.