[ RadSafe ] Po-210 in the news

[franz.schoenhofer at chello.at]

Steven,

This article is astonishingly accurate, with one exception, but this repeats a common error made by many "learned" men (and women...). Gabriele and me have shown in the paper I described a few days ago, that there is an extremely simple and easy way to find out about a severe internal contamination with alpha emitters. It takes actually a few minutes, when you have the necessary , but common equipment (LSC counter) at hand. We used exactly the same approach as I figured out when I first learned in London about the incident and thought it could only be some alpha-emitter which had been used. The interpretation of some "scientists" in English newspaper were simply hairraising, but though Litwinenko lost his hair - another hint.

I recommend to read our paper.

Best regards,

Franz  



---- Steven Dapra <sjd at swcp.com> schrieb:
> July 5
> 
> 	How reliable is this article?
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> http://news.yahoo.com/polonium-210-kill-150704498.html;_ylt=AkYMhjMXPWPGC2tg4Ut1_GdvaA8F;_ylu=X3oDMTNyb200MTk2BG1pdANUb3BTdG9yeSBXb3JsZFNGBHBrZwMzOTc0NDA4Mi02NDFmLTMzYjUtYWQyZC0xMDE1Mzk3YmI3NzUEcG9zAzExBHNlYwN0b3Bfc3RvcnkEdmVyA2NjMjliODUxLWM2ZmMtMTFlMS1hYmZmLWExZDMyMTljOWYzMA--;_ylg=X3oDMTFqOTI2ZDZmBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdAN3b3JsZARwdANzZWN0aW9ucw--;_ylv=3
> 
> Steven Dapra
> 
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