Hueypoxtla
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Hueypoxtla or Villa de San Bartolomé Hueypoxtla is a town in the State of Mexico, in Mexico. It serves as the municipal seat of the surrounding municipality of the same name. In 2010, the town had a total population of 3,989.{{cite web |url=http://www.microrregiones.gob.mx/catloc/LocdeMun.aspx?tipo=clave&campo=loc&ent=15&mun=036 |title=División municipal. Hueypoxtla, Estado de México |trans-title=Municipal division. State of Mexico |accessdate=19 March 2012 |publisher=SEDESOL |language=Spanish |year=2010 |archive-date=21 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160421194659/http://www.microrregiones.gob.mx/catloc/LocdeMun.aspx?tipo=clave&campo=loc&ent=15&mun=036 |url-status=dead }} The name comes from the Nahuatl language and means "place of great merchants" (see pochteca).{{cite web |title=Toponimia |url=https://www.hueypoxtla.gob.mx/tu-municipio/nomenclatura |website=Municipio de Hueypoxtla}}
Hueypoxtla radiological incident
On December 4, 2013, a cobalt-60 radioactive source stolen from a truck two days earlier in Tizayuca, Hidalgo, was recovered there, as well as the heavy truck itself; the decommissioned cobalt therapy machine had been en route from Tijuana, Baja California, to proper disposal at a radioactive waste storage centre in the nearby municipality of Temascalapa.{{cite web |title=The Radiological Incident in Hueypoxtla |url=https://www.iaea.org/publications/15207/the-radiological-incident-in-hueypoxtla |publisher=International Atomic Energy Agency |date=September 2022|pages=1–48 }}{{cite news |title=Mexico radioactive material found |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-25224304 |accessdate=1 June 2019 |work=BBC News |date=5 December 2013}} Federal police and military units established an armed cordon approximately {{convert|500|m}} around the exposed radiation source in the empty lot where it had been removed from its protective
shielding and abandoned.{{cite web |url=http://www.greenwichtime.com/default/article/Mexico-plans-how-to-safely-box-up-recovered-cobalt-5036571.php |title=Mexico plans how to safely box up recovered cobalt |accessdate=2013-12-08 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213235731/http://www.greenwichtime.com/default/article/Mexico-plans-how-to-safely-box-up-recovered-cobalt-5036571.php |archivedate=2013-12-13 }} Classes were suspended for two days at a neighbourhood kindergarten named for Marie Curie.{{cite news |title=Suspenden clases en kínder por fuente radiactiva |url=https://archivo.eluniversal.com.mx/estados/2013/clases-kinder-fuente-radiactiva-971093.html |work=El Universal |date=6 December 2013}} Six people showing signs of possible radiation exposure from the orphan source were later detained.{{cite web |url=http://www.krqe.com/news/international/6-detained-in-mexico-theft-of-radioactive-material_51916497 |title=6 detained in Mexico theft of radioactive material |accessdate=2013-12-08 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131211233942/http://www.krqe.com/news/international/6-detained-in-mexico-theft-of-radioactive-material_51916497 |archivedate=2013-12-11 }} The source's level of radioactivity was reported as 3000 curies (111 terabequerels).
It is not known whether the thieves wanted the truck (which included a crane), the cobalt-60, or both.{{cite news |last1=Archibold |first1=Randal C. |last2=Villegas |first2=Paulina |title=6 Arrested in Theft of Truck With Radioactive Waste |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/07/world/americas/mexico-radiation-exposure.html?_r=0 |accessdate=1 June 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=6 December 2013}}
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