Worker finds, tosses lost radioactive metal

A worker who picked up a piece of radioactive iridium-192 metal and kept it for more than three hours in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, on Wednesday has been transferred to Suzhou to receive treatment.

The worker, surnamed Wang, told police that he noticed the bracelet-shaped object when he was sweeping the floor of a construction company's welding workshop around 8 am.

He thought it was valuable, so he put it into his jacket pocket.