[ RadSafe ] Home Secretary "radioactive substances implicated inthe death of Russian ex-spy and are searching a number oflocations for residual radioactivity"

[Flanigan, Floyd]

Personally ... I think the Underpants Gnomes got 'im. They're sneaky
little buggers ... always up to something ... C'mon folks ... have these
chuckle-monkeys gotten a real live HP professional to look into it yet?
Until they do, I lend absolutely zero credibility to the whole nuclear
slant on the issue.

Floyd W. Flanigan B.S.Nuc.H.P.

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Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 9:54 AM
To: Dawson, Fred Mr; srp-uk at yahoogroups.com; radsafe at radlab.nl
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Home Secretary "radioactive substances
implicated inthe death of Russian ex-spy and are searching a number
oflocations for residual radioactivity"

Since it's always fun to conject.  What if the thallium, radioactive or
stable, is a false lead, clearly no residual radioactivity associated
with such a quantity of radiation has been detected, and should have
been.

Have not heard about any chromosomal analyses, which would strongly
support radiation damage.

But what if he was externally radiated to a lethal dose, on the order of
10 or much more Gray (air kerma), (~1000 + R for my US brethren). A
possible scenario. Such a dose can be delivered in significant fractions
of an hour with credible quantities of a commonly available source.

How can you rule against this? Short of a telltale chemical or
biological signature, if there is chromosal damage tyical of a high
radiation dose, extermal irradiation would be plausible.

Anyway- hope everyone is enjoying US Thanksgiving holiday.

                         Orhan S.

-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: "Dawson, Fred Mr" <Fred.Dawson199 at mod.uk> 

> Home Secretary John Reid reported by BBC as saying that radioactive 
> substances are believed to be implicated in the death of Russian
ex-spy 
> Alexander Litvinenko and are searching a number of locations for 
> residual radioactivity 
> 
> HPA press statement due at 15:00 this after noon 
> 
> http://www.hpa.org.uk/hpa/news/news.htm 
> 
> Fred Dawson 
> Fwp_dawson at hotmail.com 
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