In Iraq, a passerby found a container containing a radioactive substance missing from a warehouse.

In Iraq, a passer-by found a container of radioactive material that went missing from a warehouse in November 2015. According to a representative of the environmental department, the case was found near a gas station in the city of Al-Zubair. How he got there is unknown. The container went missing from a warehouse 15 kilometers from where it was found.

According to the representative of the environmental department, the container does not contain any damage. There is no threat of radioactive contamination.

• A container with radioactive iridium-192 was stolen in November 2015. The case contained up to 10 grams of the substance. The sample belonged to the Turkish division of the company SGS, which deals with the examination and certification, and was stored in Basra in the warehouse of Weatherford, an oil and gas equipment supplier.
• Iridium-192 is used, in particular, to detect defects in materials used in the manufacture of oil pipelines. Intelligence agencies feared that the substance could fall into the hands of the Islamic State (banned in Russia as a terrorist organization).