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Mexican authorities have issued an alert for a stolen truck carrying dangerous radioactive material from a disused medical device, authorities said Wednesday. The country's nuclear safety watchdog, known as the CNSNS, said that the white Volkswagen truck was stolen Monday at a gas station in Hidalgo state and that the radioactive material posed no risk so long as its container was not broken or tampered with. The truck was on its way to a nuclear waste storage facility when it was stolen, the agency said on its web site. The truck was transporting a cobalt-60 teletherapy source from a hospital in the northern city of Tijuana to a radioactive waste storage centre, the International Atomic Energy Agency said.