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Fw: Package Irradiation
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Franz Schoenhofer
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-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Franz Schoenhofer <franz.schoenhofer@chello.at>
An: Scott Wilson <scottwilson14@HOME.COM>; Radsafe Newsgroup
<radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>
Datum: Samstag, 13. Oktober 2001 19:12
Betreff: Re: Package Irradiation
Mark,
I have posted a few days ago a comment on the "feasability" of irradiating
all mail - not only the US one. You have obviously not read my comment - or
did you ignore it, because it was not from the US? - , so I post it again.
What causes you to restrict your question to US mail? Can "anthrax", which I
regard only as a synonyme for all kind of biological weapons - and I know
there exist many more possibilities for bacterial warfare!° - , cyanide, etc
not be sent from another country?
Please take common sense on that issue!
Franz
--Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>Von: Scott Wilson <scottwilson14@HOME.COM>
>An: Radsafe Newsgroup <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>
>Datum: Sonntag, 14. Oktober 2001 07:54
>Betreff: Package Irradiation
>
>
>>Would package and mail irradiation be an economical solution to the
>unwanted
>>transport of biological agent contamination via commercial and government
>>mail systems?
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>You can kill bacteria and supposedly virus with high radiation doses - no
>doubt. Though I am far from being an expert on this topic, I can easily
>demonstrate, that this would not only be not economical, but simply
>unacceptable and ridiculous.
>
>Yes, one can bring a man to the moon - and what is more important, bring
him
>back again. You can destroy organic matter 100 % with probably some
>Mega-Grays. Where will you do it? Are you going to install radiation cells
>with the necessary shielding at every airport, every post office, every
bus-
>and railway station? Are you educating millions of people, who would be
able
>to perform the irradiation and securing the irradiation cells and care for
>radiation protection? Do you want to transport every day thousands of
highly
>radioactive sources on your streets to replace the "old ones" and transport
>these ones back - still "deadly" radioactive? Do you want to hire another
>million of people, who would explain, why the chocolate in the luggage or
in
>the package which grandmother sent for Christmas is a stinky mess, or the
>candy or the fruits and vegetables sent to markets? Radiation doses
required
>to kill bacteria reliably would destroy almost any food-stuff and probably
>other organic matter as well.
>
>Oh yes, the terrorists have really hit you in the USA. They humiliate you -
>as I read on RADSAFE, people are proposing to give to flight passengers the
>choice for strip search (!!!!! like prisoners and criminals!!!) or x-raying
>(again like criminals). The stock exchange and companies react so well, to
>ruin economics by their hysteric reactions.
>I hope it is because of the weekend, that nobody answered similarily
>negative as I did just now. Radiation experts work all the time with
>probabilities of cancer, fatalities etc. - so why is nobody at RADSAFE
using
>the same approach for suicide attacks, biological weapons attack and
>terrorist attacks at all?
>
>I am not going to join the common hystery - I will fly to the USA in the
end
>of October!
>
>Franz
>
>
>
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