[ RadSafe ] Dirty Bomb Material Report?

[Jose Julio Rozental]

Colleagues,

What is the main purpose of a Dirty Bomb?                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The main purpose of a dirty bomb is to frighten people by contaminating their environment with radioactive materials and threatening large numbers of people with exposure;
Do you believe the amount,  "small amount" in the scale of exemptions,  will pose any consequences to environment  or population, to apply difficulty to emergency response?                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Dirty Bomb however spreads psychological fear and economic damage. Which kind of scenario do you think, with the amount commented in this list can pose such psychological fear and economic damage? 
Some key questions for the scenario in terms of radioactive material: 
.-  Amount (activity) of radioactive material the terrorist could steal or aquire?
.-  Chemical and Physical Properties? 
.-  What is the extent of the impact that would result? 

Jose Julio Rozental
joseroze at netvision.net.il
Israel



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Raymond A Hoover" <ray2hoover at yahoo.com>
To: "Franz Schönhofer" <franz.schoenhofer at chello.at>; "'J. Marshall Reber'" <jmarshall.reber at comcast.net>; <radsafe at radlab.nl>
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 10:28 AM
Subject: Re: AW: [ RadSafe ] Dirty Bomb Material Report?


> I just read the report.  It does not state how much material was bought.  The report states "...we purchased a small amount of radioactive sources and one container used to store and transport the material from a commercial source over the telephone".  It doesn't say how they managed to have the one container at two seperate points at the same time.  The purchases were made over the telephone.
>    
>   The report states that two border crossings were made simultaneously, one on the Canadian border and the other on the Mexican border and that counterfeit documentation was used in the crossings.
>    
>   In both cases the sources were detected by CBP and that the counterfeit documents were examined.  In both cases the Border Officers questioned the investigators.
> 
> Franz Schönhofer <franz.schoenhofer at chello.at> wrote:
>   I read the story on USA today - online, though it sounded a little
> different. The NRC has - according to USA today - stated, that the material
> involved was available without a license and not suitable for a "dirty
> bomb". USA today or rather GAO did not reveal what the material was and how
> much it was.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Franz
> 
> Franz Schoenhofer
> PhD, MR iR
> Habicherg. 31/7
> A-1160 Vienna
> AUSTRIA
> phone -43-0699-1168-1319
> 
> 
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] Im
> > Auftrag von J. Marshall Reber
> > Gesendet: Dienstag, 28. März 2006 17:06
> > An: radsafe at radlab.nl
> > Betreff: [ RadSafe ] Dirty Bomb Material Report?
> > 
> > Is this report available to anyone other than CNN:
> > 
> > > The investigators purchased a "small quantity" of radioactive materials
> > > from a commercial source, according to a Government Accountability
> > > Office report prepared for Senate Permanent Subcommittee on
> > > Investigations Chairman Norm Coleman, a Minnesota Republican.
> > 
> > 
> > see:
> > 
> > http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/27/radioactive.smuggling/index.html
> > 
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