[ RadSafe ] Po-210 in the news

[Brennan, Mike (DOH)]

Hi, Steven.

I second Franz.  This may be the single most accurate article about a
rad issue in from a non-technical source I've ever read.  I don't doubt
Franz that if you know to look for it isn't too hard to find out if
someone has been poisoned with it, but it isn't the first thing someone
would look for, and even if you found it, there isn't anything that can
be done.  

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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?
> 
>
http://news.yahoo.com/polonium-210-kill-150704498.html;_ylt=AkYMhjMXPWPG
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> 
> Steven Dapra
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