AW: [ RadSafe ] Dirty Bomb Material Report?

[Muckerheide, James]

An article today in The New Republic states:

"GAO employees smuggled 150 microcuries (a unit of radioactivity) of cesium"

I don't have access to the article.

Regards, Jim Muckerheide


> -----Original Message-----
> From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On
> Behalf Of Raymond A Hoover
> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 2:29 AM
> To: Franz "Schönhofer; 'J. Marshall Reber'; radsafe at radlab.nl
> 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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