It was a container full of scrap metal but a piece of radioactive cobalt... > the box was stuffed at a metal yard in Saudi Arabia under the auspices of Sun Met

It was a container full of scrap metal but a piece of radioactive cobalt... > the box was stuffed at a metal yard in Saudi Arabia under the auspices of Sun Metal Casting, a scrap-metal dealer in the tiny Arab emirate of Ajman. > Whatever was in the box was giving off gamma rays at 1,173 and 1,332 kiloelectron volts. It could be only one thing: cobalt-60 slowly alchemizing itself into nickel.