RE: Dirty Bomb Predictions

["Jacobus, John (OD/ORS)" <jacobusj@ors.od.nih.gov>]

Michael,

My purpose of my posting was show that with a significant amount of

contamination in a small area, the dose rates are not going to be lethal for

those responding to the incident and even those who would be involved with

the clean up.  I believe that we should present the information as doses

that can cause significant acute effects.  I pose that my example would

involve a radiographers source that was exploded inside the trunk of a car

parked on the street.  The spread of radiation was confined to the immediate

area.  The terrorists were not sophisticated to design a bomb that would

develop a bomb that would produce "a mist of fine particles."  (Hey, they

thought they were buying plutonium.)  



Now, who thinks my scenario is worst than the FAS one?  



-- John 

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist 

3050 Traymore Lane

Bowie, MD  20715-2024



E-mail:  jenday1@email.msn.com (H)      



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

From: Levi, Michael [mailto:mlevi@fas.org]

Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 12:05 PM

To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

Subject: Dirty Bomb Predictions



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12)  Re the NIH poster -- 1 Ci/m^2 is a totally unrealistic -- even the

chernobly closed zone was 40 microcuries/m^2 Cs-137.



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