Re[2]: Man Sentenced in radioactive Poisoning Case

[steve.rima@DOEGJPO.COM (Steven Rima)]

     Franz,
     
     Per your (edited) response below, you had the only key to access the 
     radioactive material, so this would absolutely prevent unauthorized 
     access and intentional misuse of the material. Question: If YOU had 
     decided to willfully break all the rules and use the radioactive 
     material to harm someone, would the University still be responsible, 
     in whole or in part, or would you be to blame?
     
     Someone, or more than one someone, must be authorized to access and 
     use radioactive material. If that someone is the one who then 
     intentionally misuses the material, whose fault is it?
     
     Steven D. Rima, CHP, CSP
     Manager, Health Physics and Industrial Hygiene
     MACTEC-ERS, LLC
     steven.rima@doegjpo.com
     
     


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Subject: RE: Man Sentenced in radioactive Poisoning Case
Author:  Franz Schoenhofer <schoenho@via.at> at Internet
Date:    1/11/00 4:50 PM


All radioactive material was - as the Austrian Radiation Protection Law and 
the Ordinance require - kept in lead castles, which were locked with 
special locks, for which I had the keys. I was responsible for the security 
of the radioactive material and also for radiation protection.
     
When any coworker, who was not specially authorized needed some material 
out of these, it was handed out to him by me for the time of use and then 
put back.
     
I do not understand, what is so complicated and impossible about this?
     
Franz
     
     
Franz Schoenhofer
Habicherg. 31/7
A-1160 Vienna
Austria
Tel.: +43-1-495 53 08
Fax.: same number
mobile phone: +43-664-338 0 333
e-mail: schoenho@via.at
     
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