Re: ABCNEWS.com: Hundreds of Radioactive Devices Missing

[muckerheide <muckerheide@attbi.com>]

 From: Ted de Castro <tdc@XRAYTED.COM>



> Didn't you also like "in just 30 minutes he was exposed to the amount of

> radiation most people get in 3 months"

> 

> Sounds so much more devastating than 30 mR.



Or add, "unless you live in Denver"  or "go to the hospital."  :-)



More to the point, who was the "expert" who gave the "journalist" the

"facts!?"



Regards, Jim

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> Jack_Earley@RL.GOV wrote:

>> 

>> I don't remember the details of the boy who stole the construction sign. Was

>> he ever prosecuted for the theft, and who paid for the $200,000 cleanup?

>> Ironic that they would then ask how hard is it for a criminal to obtain a

>> radioactive device, and cite for their example a machine that sat in a pawn

>> shop for a year where it could have been "purchased" by anybody. I had the

>> impression that journalists as a group were liberal anti-nukes (is that

>> redundant?). Maybe I was wrong and there's just a good number of them that

>> are stupid.

>> 

>> Jack Earley

>> Radiological Engineer

>> 

>> -----Original Message-----

>> From: Elaine Marshall [mailto:emarshall@fnal.gov]

>> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 6:28 AM

>> To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

>> Subject: Fw: ABCNEWS.com: Hundreds of Radioactive Devices Missing

>> 

>>> I thought you might find this story interesting.

>>> 

>>> Hundreds of Radioactive Devices Missing

>>> http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/DailyNews/nuclear_material020410.html

>>> 

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