This is possibly the most remarkable news story to hit the wide brown land since, well, the original one of the FUCKING DANGEROUS NUCLEAR OBJECT being lost in the first place.
The amount of road they had to cover in order where the thing was lost is apparently equivalent in distance to the entirety of the UK mainland. Yikes. The discovery of this miniscule (see above) thing is understandably compared to finding a needle in a haystack, with the obvious difference being that needles generally don’t need twenty-metre containment around them because needles generally put out absurd amounts of radiation that could, you know, cause grievous bodily harm. And apparently the maximum penalty for losing this thing is only one thousand dollars. Rio Tinto’s lucky there’s probably next to no one out there to chance upon it… well, maybe apart from some indigenous folks, and we know how much of a shit Rio Tinto gives for them…
Anyway, at least we know where it was, but personally I’m also a little concerned that they’re not even sure sure when the thing was lost… that was a detail I was unaware of until I read the story of its rediscovery, they reckon some time between the 11th and 16th of January, and then they didn’t announce it until the 25th. Apparently that’s when Rio Tinto found out themselves that Baby Chernobyl was missing… or, at any rate, that’s when they said it was. Rio Tinto are a pretty shit company, we know that, and I wouldn’t be entirely surprised to discover down the track that they knew much earlier and tried to cover the thing up until something forced them to admit it…
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