http://www.rt.com/news/418408-radioactive-device-stolen-mexico/ Mexico's interior ministry has issued an alert across seven states following the theft of a radioactive device.

The item in question is a nuclear densometer which is used in geotechnical engineering to measure density. It contains radioactive material and there are fears such material could be used to make a "dirty bomb."

The theft of the device took place in the city of León in the state of Guanajuata on Thursday morning. It was stolen from a vehicle belonging to an engineering firm. The National Coordination of Civil Protection warned that the material in the device is highly dangerous if removed from its container.

As well as Guanajuata, the ministry issued warnings in Querétaro, Jalisco, Michoacán, San Luis Potosí, Aguascalientes, and Zacatecas. The National coordinator of Civil Protection, Luis Felipe Puente, tweeted a picture showing what the device looks like.

Thieves have successfully got their hands on radioactive material several times in Mexico in recent years.

In April last year, a nine-state alert was issued following the theft of industrial radiography equipment which was filled with Iridium-192, a radioactive element that can cause burns, acute radiation sickness, and death. Similar heists also took place in April 2015 and July 2014.

Bit scary considering all the sources out there that are used

you would think that it would've had some kind of built in tracking device..perhaps that just makes too much sense..oh well..

the article is nothing but fear mongering by RT (Russia Today)
do your own research on densometers and see for yourself
what little danger they actually present to the public at large..

Argo knows about radioactive devices, so we can all relax now....

Whew,thank goodness, had me scared there.

Your typical downplaying.

Across the border here in Cd Juarez....a hospital just "threw away an old Xray machine fro the 70s...

Well a family of junkers thought...awsome! Lots of metal to sell...
Within 1 month of cracking open the radioactive core....Blue isotope...the children started puting the blue poweder in their face an hands...glows in the dark you know..
The entire family died of acute radiation poisoning....
So sad that Mexico has no understanding of how dangerous radiation is....

i'd like to ask if this story is the account about a man in
Juarez who later became known as "El Cobalto" ??

I certainly feel safer.

No it's El-Cobong that guitar playing horse