Missing Radioactive Material

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Numerous drone sightings “may be linked to missing radioactive material.” The mayor of Belleville, New Jersey, thinks he solved the mystery. While an unusual twist has certainly developed in the attack swarm saga, what’s known about the lost isotopes doesn’t match up with a frenzy level of activity to find the stuff.

Radioactive Material missing

Radioactive material came up missing and some believe it could explain the mysterious string of drone sightings.

An alert bulletin went out this week, from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, notifying law enforcement up and down the eastern seaboard. The “piece of medical equipment used for cancer scans” was “lost in transit” December 2.

Belleville Mayor Michael Melham noticed that’s about when the drone sightings started. On Tuesday, December 17, Melham issued a statement that the drones “flying in a grid-like pattern over his Essex County township” appear to be looking for something.

Maybe that “radioactive material.” If that’s what’s causing all the disturbance, someone seems to be lying about what’s really missing.

Melham explains the feds know there was a shipment. When it “arrived at its destination. The container was damaged, and it was empty.” Nobody is saying how it was damaged and if it looked intentional or accidental.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission says the nuclear medicine related material was “lost in transit” after leaving “the Nazha Cancer Center in Newfield in Gloucester County in southern New Jersey.

The missing device is an Eckert & Ziegler model HEGL-0132.

A pin source

Officially, the missing device is “an Eckert & Ziegler model HEGL-0132.” It had reached the end of its service life and was being shipped off for proper disposal. It’s “shipping container arrived at its destination damaged and empty.

The missing material really isn’t that big of a deal, radiation-wise. Known as a “pin source,” the small item “contains a tiny amount of the radioactive chemical Germanium-68.” They only thing they use it for is to calibrate accuracy in PET scanners.

All those drones seem like major overkill to find a radiation source that’s “deemed less than a Category 3 on the International Atomic Energy Agency’s scale.

It wouldn’t even do much good in a dirty bomb because the material is “very unlikely to cause permanent injury to individuals.” The amount of radiation it contains isn’t enough to cause “any permanent injury.

Part of the reason the nuclear material search theory is gaining so much traction is because someone else mentioned it independently of the mayor. John Ferguson, CEO of a remote-aircraft-system company in Kansas got a flash of inspiration while watching video of the drone swarms.

He suggested “that the drones are trying to ‘smell‘ a gas leak, radioactive material or something else.” He makes a good point. “The only reason why you would ever fly an unmanned aircraft at night is if you’re looking for something.

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