It sparked a frantic search along the 1400 kilometre highway where the specialist teams held the radiation detection equipment. While traveling at the road at 70 kilometres per hour. It was like trying to find a needle in a haystack. But on day six of the search, authorities found the capsule 2 meters from the side of the road, just outside the town of Newman. Dr. Kempson said the risk increases when radiation becomes higher than the background level
Emergency responders and radiant specialists were frantically searching for the capsule along 22 miles busy freight road in the regions of the Pilbara and the Midwest Gasculine and according to the Department of the Fire and Emergency Services, Western Australia search parties drove north and the south along the Great Northern Highway at slow speeds in hope of finding the capsule. And dfes especially searched. The teams also used radiation survey meters to detect the gamma rays and reduction level radiation level to try and locate the capsule