Vietnam turns to landfill in search of lost radioactive source over tipoff
Thursday, April 09, 2015, 17:14 GMT+7
A Korean firm’s employee has brought a ray of hope to the frantic search for a hazardous radioactive source reportedly gone missing for more than three months in southern Vietnam, as he claimed to have buried an object hopefully being the lost piece of equipment at a landfill.
Tran Van Toan, who works for South Korean-invested Kbec Vina Co. Ltd., told authorities of Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province on Tuesday he had buried an object that looks like the lost radioactive source of steelmaker Pomina at one of the company’s dumps.
The piece of equipment, reported missing since late 2014, contains the synthetic radioactive Cobalt-60, which can cause cancer when exposed to human beings.
