According to The Washington Post, the cobalt-60 that they stole was found abandoned, removed from its protective casing, about 25 miles from where it was stolen. Mardonio Jimenez of Mexico’s ...

The cobalt-60 theft triggered alerts in six Mexican states and Mexico City, as well as international notifications to the U.S. and the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna.

Another part of a missing medical radiation device that once contained cobalt-60 bears a sign in English warning of possible radiation, Dec. 10. 2013. Mexican truck driver Mauro Moya said he doesn ...

Increasingly, cobalt 60 is used to irradiate spices to remove pathogens such as bacteria; no traces of radioactive material remains after the sterilization. It is also used in leveling devices and ...

The cobalt-60 theft, in the early hours of Dec. 2, sent alarmed officials scrambling from Mexico City to Washington to Vienna. Some warned that the dangerous material can be used by a terrorist to ...

Although the dangerous radioactive cargo has been recovered, authorities say the two thieves who stole a truck carrying cobalt-60 in Mexico on Monday "will, without a doubt, die," because they ...

The cobalt-60 was found, removed from its casing, in a rural area near the town of Hueypoxtla, about 25 miles from where the truck was stolen. Jimenez said he suspected that curiosity got the better ...

On Monday, a truck carrying the radioactive material cobalt-60 was stolen near Mexico City causing alarm because of the dangerous material’s potential to be used in constructing a “dirty bomb.” ...

The Americas Stolen cobalt-60 found in Mexico; thieves may be doomed December 5, 2013 More than 11 years ago Summary By Gabriela Martinez ...

Now days after the highly radioactive material cobalt-60 was stolen in a Mexican truck heist that put the UN on alert, six people have been hospitalized for possible radiation exposure.

The cobalt-60 will now be stored, along with other radioactive waste, at a 40-year-old facility of the National Institute of Nuclear Investigations, which sits near the farm village of Maquixco ...