It’d be very useful. Imagine having a weapon capable of killing someone off covertly. You could keep the capsule in a lead box, and whenever you want to get rid of an enemy, put the capsule somewhere close to where they sleep, and leave it there long enough to induce radiation sickness or cancer in the target. Then you could retrieve the capsule and continue this process with another enemy.

Radiation sickness is not particularly covert.

I guess maybe it's a lack of detail leading me to this suspicion, but I've moved lots of stuff, thousands of tons of stuff. I don't understand how a capsule this small could even possibly be unsecured to the point that it falls out of containment and into the road on its lonesome.

> Upon opening the package, it was found that the gauge was broken apart with one of the four mounting bolts missing and the source itself and all screws on the gauge also missing

If they were transporting it this sloppily it could have easily killed the transporters. I've moved empty USB sticks with more caution. If they find this just lying on the side of the road somewhere I'll eat my hat.