[ RadSafe ] Citation requested for "How tough is it to build..." C. Bradt

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Dear Mr. Bradt: 
 
Are you referring to the open atmospheric tests in general, or do you have  
a specific citation for the comment you left below ("thousands of 
radioactive  dispersal devices tested in the atmosphere")?
Were these devices being tested in specific to gauge their potential for  
the spread of contamination or, as a general outcome of the tests conducted  
between the dates provided?
 
At what point in specific would "deadly" be an actual reference word used  
to accurately denote a certain level of contamination? Any numbers? 
 
"Too broad to be effective" -- in the atmosphere? What about ground born  
contact (ingestion, inhalation, etc) from fallout deposition, rainout etc...? 
 Was the end game intention of testing to be "effective" at creating a 
health  hazard? Or, am I taking this out of your context. Would you please  
explain?
 
A "pun"? -- I don't think that DHS is taking this potential danger as a  
pun. Do you actually think so?
 
"The level of disruption created would be a function of the clean-up levels 
 and disposal 
requirements likely to be imposed by politicians and their  toadies, not by 
the actual health hazards posed."
 
Do "politicians and their toadies" include all regulators and employees of  
the aforementioned within a political system such as say: state level  
"health" and or "environmental" departments and their employees? Or, is there  
some sort of a segregation that I'm not aware of?  ;)
 
Message: 1
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 13:59:33 -0500
From: Clayton J  Bradt <CJB01 at health.state.ny.us>
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] How tough is  it to build a dirty  bomb?
Message-ID: <notes.health.state.ny.us>

1. "Between 1945 and sometime in the 1960's there were thousands of  
radioactive dispersal devices tested in the atmosphere."
 
2. "the dispersal was too broad to be effective.  "Deadly" plutonium  and 
fission 
products can be found pretty much everywhere on the planet's  surface."
 
 
And, since  these are not natural materials to the planet at all except 
perhaps in the  previous Belgian Congo, is this a good thing in your mind?
 
Any clarification(s) as an employee of NYS DoH would be greatly  
appreciated.
==

lou  ricciuti,
researcher, author,
Niagara Falls - Lewiston - Porter, New  York,
* "Los Alamos East"
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* The free world's largest ore-to-metal  uranium production center.
See: "Sites and Contractors - Appendix  A"
"Electro Metallurgical Company (Niagara Falls, New York), a subsidiary of  
Union Carbide, was the MED's largest ore-to-metal uranium production plant.