Officials looking for missing nuclear device that fell off truck [View all]

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Crews are looking for a missing nuclear gauge -- containing sealed sources of radioactive material -- that was lost May 3.

The Pennsylvania DEP, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and West Virginia state officials are searching Interstate 81 between mile markers 17 and 24, where it apparently fell off of a truck, the Department of Environmental Protection said in a press release.

Pennsylvania firm Valley Quarries Inc. of Chambersburg, Franklin County, is licensed by the DEP to possess and use the gauge. Staff members from the company said it was being used in West Virginia at the time it was lost.

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"It is critical for anyone who has information about the lost nuclear gauge to contact the Pennsylvania DEP, Nuclear Regulatory Commission or a local law enforcement agency immediately," DEP Bureau of Radiation Protection director David Allard said. "As long as the device is not tampered with or damaged, it presents no hazard to public safety."



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