It was lost in transit at most 20 days ago between January 11 and January 16.
It was logged as missing five days ago on January 25.
> Their current detection strategy is to post a picture of a watch battery on Facebook and hope it just magically shows up.
This is patently false.
> We're a little deficient in technology here in Australia
Perhaps surprisingly Australia is one of the world leaders in international radiometric mapping having expertise going back 50+ years having mapped multiple entire countries (Australia, Fiji, Mali, and a number of others).
See (for example): https://www.publish.csiro.au/EG/EG09025 (2009)
Perth is home to several radiometric mapping companies and capable airframes.
Where are you getting months from?
" ... the truck made the journey from 12th to 16th of January, the capsule was not discovered to be missing until the 25th of January."
It's been missing for 2 weeks, and known to be missing for 5 days.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Australian_radioacti...
Also to say the tactics being used to find the capsule being limited to “post a picture of a watch batter on Facebook and hope it magically shows up” would be misleading.
1)The public alerts and posts are to keep the public informed as to what it is. This is for the very small chance someone does stumble onto it to limit the risk to the public.
2)They are searching the route with handheld detectors and soon detectors on vehicles using the trucks GPS data to map the route
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jan/29/new-t...
This thing has been missing for months. Their current detection strategy is to post a picture of a watch battery on Facebook and hope it just magically shows up.
We're a little deficient in technology here in Australia, especially in government, doubly so in state government.