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Thieves in central Mexico on Thursday stole a pick-up truck carrying dangerous radioactive material, authorities said. The load of iridium 192 was normally used in industrial radiography, Mexico's interior ministry said in a statement. In December, thieves in Mexico made off with a truck containing dangerous radioactive medical material - Cobalt-60 - that the United Nations' nuclear agency said could provide an ingredient for a "dirty bomb", in which conventional explosives disperse radiation from a radioactive source. The U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which has stepped up calls on member states to tighten security to prevent nuclear and radioactive materials from falling into the wrong hands, had no immediate comment on Friday.
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