AW: AW: [ RadSafe ] Dirty Bomb Material Report?

[Franz Schönhofer]

James,

I posted yesterday, Wednesday 29 March 2006 at 14:08 Central European Summer
Time a comment which I think should be more than interesting for RADSAFErs
to put this "smuggling story" into perspective. I added my sources, both
Washington Post and the Global Security Newswire of the Nuclear Threat
Initiative. 

Now it is Thursday, 30 March 2006, 17:12 and my posting has still not been
forwarded to the list. So it might take another day or more until you will
read this message on the list. I hope that Cc works in this case. 

It is difficult to participate in the lively discussions on this list, if
messages are withheld for moderator approval for more than a day. 

Best regards to everyone. 

Franz

Franz Schoenhofer
PhD, MR iR
Habicherg. 31/7
A-1160 Vienna
AUSTRIA
phone -43-0699-1168-1319


> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Muckerheide, James [mailto:jimm at WPI.EDU]
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 30. März 2006 14:40
> An: Raymond A Hoover; Franz "Schönhofer; J. Marshall Reber;
> radsafe at radlab.nl
> Betreff: RE: AW: [ RadSafe ] Dirty Bomb Material Report?
> 
> 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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