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Radioactive material stolen from lab in Mexico
« on: June 13, 2014, 04:35:11 pm »
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2014/06/12/radioactive-material-stolen-from-lab-in-mexico/?intcmp=trending


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A device containing radioactive substances was stolen from a government research facility and authorities are working to track it down, Mexico's No. 2 official said.

"We have the report regarding the theft of this material and the alerts and protocol we follow in these cases have already been implemented," Government Secretary Miguel Angel Osorio Chong told reporters after speaking at a conference of state law enforcement chiefs and attorneys general.

Exposure to the cesium-37 and americium-beryllium inside the stolen piece of equipment is not likely to cause permanent injury, the central government said in an alert distributed to authorities in Mexico City and the states of Mexico, Morelos, Puebla, Tlaxcala, Guerrero, Michoacan, Guanajuato, Queretaro, Hidalgo, Oaxaca and Veracruz.

A group of armed men grabbed the device Sunday night during an assault on a National Construction Laboratory warehouse in Tultitlan, Mexico state.