Re: So, is reprocessing in America's future?

["Raymond Shadis" <shadis@ime.net>]

Count among those destitute terrorists nuclear pioneers, H.D Smyth and E.P.

Wigner, who three days after Pearl Harbor wrote a report concluding that the

fission products formed in only a single day of operating a nuclear reactor

at a power of 100,000 kilowatts might be enough to render a large area

uninhabitable. In 1948, the brilliant Hans Thirring published a paper

describing the potential in the dispersal of short-lived fission products

to force evacuation of enemy cities.



 Nuclear proliferation is nuclear proliferation.



It is doubtful terrorists or terrorist nations are very much interested in a

clean, high-yield bomb. Consider what might have followed by way of response

if the SCUD missle that hit the US installation in Saudi Arabia during the

Gulf War had a nuclear component to it, either a very poor bomb or just a

load of mixed fission products.

                                                                Ray

----- Original Message -----

From: maury <maury@WEBTEXAS.COM>

To: <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 12:28 PM

Subject: Re: So, is reprocessing in America's future?





>

> Amen - well put. There is no real issue here, but the various interested

> parties will keep it "alive" anyway. It is kind of amusing to note the

> wide

> range of imagination and creativity shown in the process. And it is

> always

> remarkable how ignorant these destitute terrorists are.

> Cheers,  Maury Siskel   maury@webtexas.com

> ====================================

> PBarring@KDHE.STATE.KS.US wrote:

>

> > This is just my two cents, since everyone else is piping in.  What needs

to

> > be said is that if somebody REALLY wants fissionable material, for a

device

> > or just to scatter isotopes all over the place, they WILL get it.

You're

> > not dealing with cretins.  You are dealing with educated leaders,

> > knowledgeable support personnel and LOTS of money.  Reprocessing is not

the

> > problem, or at least not the problem the press makes it out to be.

There

> > is already plenty of material out there available for use, and for a lot

> > less trouble and expense than stealing it from a reprocessing facility

or

> > fuel shipment.  Heck, if I were a terrorist I could make plenty of

people

> > miserable and scared by touching-off a plain old chemical bomb with

medical

> > isotopes and source material strapped to it.  People don't care how the

> > radiation is spread around or even what the isotopes are, all they know

is

> > that radiation is evil stuff and that we all lie.  Again, we need to

> > educate people.  Maybe we should start with the press corps.

> >

> > "Just my humble opinions.  Nothing I say is endorsed by my employer.  I

> > also DO NOT endorse terrorism."

> >

> > Phil

> >

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