On December 4, 2013, a cobalt-60 radioactive source stolen from a truck two days earlier in Tizayuca, Hidalgo, was recovered there, as well as the heavy truck itself; the decommissioned cobalt therapy machine had been en route from Tijuana, Baja California, to proper disposal at a radioactive waste storage centre in the nearby municipality of Temascalapa.[3][4] Federal police and military units established an armed cordon approximately 500 metres (1,600 ft) around the exposed radiation source in the empty lot where it had been removed from its protective shielding and abandoned.[5] Classes were suspended for two days at a neighbourhood kindergarten named for Marie Curie.[6] Six people showing signs of possible radiation exposure from the orphan source were later detained.[7] The source's level of radioactivity was reported as 3000 curies (111 terabequerels).[3] It is not known whether the thieves wanted the truck (which included a crane), the cobalt-60, or both.[8]
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Portales in Hueypoxtla
^"División municipal. Hueypoxtla, Estado de México" [Municipal division. State of Mexico] (in Spanish). SEDESOL. 2010. Retrieved 19 March 2012.
^ ab"The Radiological Incident in Hueypoxtla". International Atomic Energy Agency. September 2022. pp. 1–48.
^"Mexico radioactive material found". BBC News. 5 December 2013. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
^. Archived from the original on 2013-12-13. Retrieved 2013-12-08.
^"Suspenden clases en kínder por fuente radiactiva". El Universal. 6 December 2013.
^. Archived from the original on 2013-12-11. Retrieved 2013-12-08.
^Archibold, Randal C.; Villegas, Paulina (6 December 2013). "6 Arrested in Theft of Truck With Radioactive Waste". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
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