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Radioactive material found as Australian border force raid Sydney home (www.bbc.co.uk)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Probably out of an abundance of caution, and the police never get to actually use their hazmat response kit.

I'm guessing it was one of those toy uranium samples from a previous resident left in the house, and when the new residents found it, they called to find out what to do with it.