First reports say it's a tool that contains radioactive material, but why did the driver start shooting at the cops before the chase?
Looks like Troxler density measurement devices for road materials have a price around tens of thousand bucks per unit.
How about something like - Dude stole this expensive device from roadworkers who carelessly left it on the road without supervision, they called police, police stopped thief, he start to shoot, they chased him.
PS: amount of radioactive isotope in such devices is tiny and there is nothing that need hazmat suits and such. Also, there is same purpose devices without anything radioactive at all, they work like microwave radars, not radioactive probes. Troxler made them too and they look similar with nuclear ones. Мodel is not specified, may be there was nothing radioactive at all. But who will miss an opportunity for hype today?
The tool was in the work truck that was stolen. They spotted the truck in a Walmart parking lot and were watching for the suspect but he shot at police and drove away. They have the highway closed until hazmat teams arrive
So that have nothing to do with device itself. It's not very different from stealing a car with a few regular old-style smoke detectors (they have radioactive americium inside) occasionally being in a trunk. Or with thoriated TIG welding electrodes in glovebox.
Nothing above need hazmat suited team.
Or, may be, at the same time, at the same place there was another, undisclosed accident, with something much more serious than road density meter, that really needed hazmat team to clean up.
I'm sure more information will be available tomorrow. Probably nothing if it was in a pickup truck, but any chance to make money cleaning up gets someone's attention
Nope, just showing another example to reinforce what we already know
Looks like Troxler density measurement devices for road materials have a price around tens of thousand bucks per unit.
How about something like - Dude stole this expensive device from roadworkers who carelessly left it on the road without supervision, they called police, police stopped thief, he start to shoot, they chased him.
PS: amount of radioactive isotope in such devices is tiny and there is nothing that need hazmat suits and such. Also, there is same purpose devices without anything radioactive at all, they work like microwave radars, not radioactive probes. Troxler made them too and they look similar with nuclear ones. Мodel is not specified, may be there was nothing radioactive at all. But who will miss an opportunity for hype today?
The tool was in the work truck that was stolen. They spotted the truck in a Walmart parking lot and were watching for the suspect but he shot at police and drove away. They have the highway closed until hazmat teams arrive
So that have nothing to do with device itself. It's not very different from stealing a car with a few regular old-style smoke detectors (they have radioactive americium inside) occasionally being in a trunk. Or with thoriated TIG welding electrodes in glovebox.
Nothing above need hazmat suited team.
Or, may be, at the same time, at the same place there was another, undisclosed accident, with something much more serious than road density meter, that really needed hazmat team to clean up.
I'm sure more information will be available tomorrow. Probably nothing if it was in a pickup truck, but any chance to make money cleaning up gets someone's attention
May be some local regulations demand hazmat team for any incident with anything radioactive.