The Invisible Heist: How Iridium-192 Disappeared from a Vault
The Invisible Heist: How Iridium-192 Disappeared from a Vault
Danger hid in plain sight: thirty-one point four grams of Iridium-192 moved out of a federally controlled vault over eight weeks without a single automated alert, and the only clue was a crumpled foil pouch found in a septic drain. Who engineered a weight-substitution scheme that made the paper logs look perfect while grams vanished?
In this episode, we follow the sequence of discoveries and the people involved, from the septic contractor who first found the pouch to the environmental crimes investigator who forced a physical…
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