[ RadSafe ] Shielding of DEVICES

[Dan McCarn]

Dear Jim:

Were you on the receiving end... or the giving end of the inspection... So
you are that poor, witless geologist?

There have been times when I have been very surprised that my baggage was
not inspected (before 2001).  Since then, they always seem ultra-curious
about my Ludlum Model 19 and not the rocks...

Dan ii

On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Jim Hardeman
<Jim.Hardeman at dnr.state.ga.us>wrote:

> Dan --
>
> You speak in the future tense, when instead, you should have spoken in
> the PAST tense. Been there, done that.
>
> Jim Hardeman
>
> >>> Dan McCarn <hotgreenchile at gmail.com> 1/6/2012 16:38 >>>
> Dear Group:
>
> Most likely, they will find radioactive rocks on some poor witless
> geologist...
>
> Dan ii
>
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Clayton J Bradt
> <CJB01 at health.state.ny.us>wrote:
>
> > Joe Presig wrote:
> >
> > ...   A person who can bring to bear such a DEVICE into  another
> nation
> > would probably be able to
> > design a radiation shield(s) to make it very difficult and/or
> impossible
> > to
> >  detect such a DEVICE.
> >
> >     As Oppenheimer once responded to the question (How  would you
> detect
> > such a weapon),
> > he wryly suggested that one needs a screwdriver to detect such
> DEVICES.
> > (i.e not some
> > sophisticated radiation detector(s)).  Hopefully USA and other
> nation's
> > will use direct inspection of
> > containers, shipping packages etc. to look for nuclear DEVICES
> directly
> > ....
> >
> > There is no instrumental solution to this problem.  Save for
> dismantling
> > every package (as Oppenheimer's remarks suggest)
> >  before it crosses the border, there will always be ways to
> circumvent any
> > surveillance system.  The amount of time and
> > money being spent on developing new super-duper detection systems is
> > largely wasted.  It would be far better spent
> > on trying to figure out why some people want to attack us, and then
> > convincing them not to do so.  (This of course would
> > risk the possibility of learning that some people might have good
> reasons
> > for hating us.  It's a risk worth taking, in my view.)
> >
> >
> > Clayton J. Bradt
> > Principal Radiophysicist
> > NYS Dept. of Health
> > Biggs Laboratory, Room D486A
> > Empire State Plaza
> > Albany, NY 12201-0509
> >
> > 518-474-1993
> >
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> Dan ii
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Dan ii

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Dan W McCarn, Geologist
108 Sherwood Blvd
Los Alamos, NM 87544-3425
+1-505-672-2014 (Home – New Mexico)
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