Caesium-137 found at steel-melting plant during search for missing cylinder

Officials ordered the foundry halt operations to prevent the radioactive metal from being crushed and scattered into several cubes. - The Nation

BANGKOK (The Nation/Asia News Network): Dangerous radioactive material that went missing from a Prachinburi power plant has resurfaced at a steel foundry in the province, said provincial governor Ronnarong Nakornjinda on Sunday (March 19).

Officials have been checking steel factories in the province, 150km east of Bangkok, since a cylinder of caesium-137 was discovered missing from a coal-fired power plant in Sri Maha Pho district on March 10.