[ RadSafe ] Anti- ?

[Muckerheide, Jim (CDA)]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl 
>[mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On Behalf Of Flanigan, Floyd
>Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 4:21 PM
>To: Ed Hiserodt; Earley, Jack N; radsafe at radlab.nl
>Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] Anti- ?

>Then what the heck would they do with the fuel?
>Putting it in a "dirty bomb" is a bone-headed proposition since no one
>could live long enough to build the thing in the radiological
conditions 
>they would create by removing the fuel from the cask to put it in the
>bomb. Then ... if they managed that, there would be no way to deliver
>the device anywhere. They would have to have a new driver for the thing
>every 2 miles to replace the dead one behind the wheel 

It's "much easier" than that.  :-)  "Just" loosen the cask lid.  Put the
cask horizontally on a trailer.  

Drive to the location.  Push the lid aside.  Get a "suicide bomber" to
hook/grapple the fuel.

Winch the fuel out onto a 12+ ft cradle of high explosives!  Pull the
trigger. :-)

Regards, Jim Muckerheide
========================


>Floyd W.Flanigan B.S.Nuc.H.P.
>Sr. Analyst
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On
>Behalf Of Ed Hiserodt
>Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 2:47 PM
>To: 'Earley, Jack N'; radsafe at radlab.nl
>Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] Anti- ?
>
>Can't you just see the terrorists riding off into the Nevada 
>desert with
>spent fuel assemblies tied to their camel saddlebags on the way to a
>secret
>reprocessing plant where they can chemically separate the
>Pu240-contaminated
>Pu239 to make dud bombs.  Or maybe they'll use an IED to blow up spent
>fuel
>containers designed to withstand a collision with a freight train.
>
>Mixing diesel fuel with ammonium nitrate or strapping explosives to
>children
>and sending them into a crowded store is so much easier.
>
>Ed Hiserodt
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On
>Behalf
>Of Earley, Jack N
>Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 1:12 PM
>To: radsafe at radlab.nl
>Subject: [ RadSafe ] Anti- ?
>
>And you thought Floyd's comments were politically incorrect . . . ?
>
>"I am told by FBI and others that some of the information about nuclear
>waste shipments have appeared on many Arab and other terrorist-type Web
>sites" said Bob Loux, executive director of Nevada's Agency for Nuclear
>Projects, speaking to the Sparks NV city council on Monday (AP
>newswire)."
>
>Jack Earley
>Health Physicist
>509.372.9532
> 
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