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Radioactive Find Alarms Scientists
Tuesday, February 5, 2002
(1:51 PM ET) (18:51 GMT)
By Matthew Chance
The Cable News Network

The devices -- which contain highly radioactive Strontium-90 -- were found by three local woodsmen, who used their glowing heat to keep warm. Two are still in hospital.

TBILISI, Georgia -- CNN
Experts from the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog have been helping Georgian scientists transfer two radioactive devices, discovered in the remote west of the country, to a secure storage site in the capital, Tbilisi.

The incident has renewed fears, in the wake of the September 11 attacks, that nuclear material could fall into the hands of terrorists.

The U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency team has had to trek through the snows of the remote Caucusus mountains to recover the devices.

Wearing protective clothing, and using long metal tongs the two Soviet era radioactive batteries were plucked, steaming, from the bushes, and encased in lead.
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I suppose there are worse things in this world than freezing to death...

Dan