Honduras finds radioactive material in container (bound for Hong Kong)

Reuters via Drudge Report ^ | Oct 29, 2007 | not specified

[RDTF]

TEGUCIGALPA, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Honduras authorities have found strong traces of radioactive material in a Hong Kong-bound shipping container carrying steel debris from an Atlantic coast port, officials said on Monday.

During a security scan on Sunday, officials detected high readings of radioactivity emanating from the container at the Puerto Cortes port, 115 miles (185 km) north of Honduras' capital, Tegucigalpa.

"We immediately declared an alert and have seized the container for inspection," Edwin Araque, the manager of Honduras' port authority, said on Monday.

The container belonged to a local company.

Docks and ports across the world are scanned for materials that could be used to produce nuclear or dirty bombs. Puerto Cortes was declared a safe port by the United States more than a year ago.

A government official said the material found in the container was Cesium-137 and could have come from a hospital.

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[WVNight]

Nothing to see here. Move along. Move along....

[Perdogg]

I am not saying move along, but let’s not rush to conclusions.

[WVNight]

There are to many things like this happening in recent years that are being ignored. There is more to this story and the MSM will again ignore it.

[denydenydeny]

Cesium 137

This could have come from any number of places. The soil in a 20 mile radius of Chernobyl still sets off Cesium 137 alarms.

[Danae]

"It is often used to sterilize medical equipment and also has a wide range of industrial applications. In March, Spain halted production at a steel plant after workers found the material in a truck." Am I the only one that has noticed a pattern....Radio Active materials being found in vehicles belonging to legimate Businesses which one would not normally be there.... Perhaps Al Q moving materials as stealthily as possible..... a vehicle being borrowed or out of the shop for a time, inside jobs... We know they have gotten here, we know there are cells. Pardon the paranoia, but does something smell here...?

[ASOC]

ah, disposing of radioactive waste in a steel yard - melting it away perhaps?

This has happen before where the country has lax enviro law dealing with radioactive waste..... like, say, Mexico.

[Danae]

Occam’s razor....