RE: possible terrorist attack on a nuke = Washington times

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

Tim,

>From what I have seen, lethality is based on increased cancer risks, not

deterministic risks.  



It is interesting to consider that in the Goinia, Brazil, accident, some (or

all?) of those who died were not involved with sealing the Cs-137 source.



-- John 

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist 

3050 Traymore Lane

Bowie, MD  20715-2024



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



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

From: Tim [mailto:tstead@ntirs.org]

Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 12:11 PM

To: radsafe

Subject: Re: possible terrorist attack on a nuke = washington times



The report says that there are two men that are making

a dirty bomb - to increase the lethality of the bomb.



It seems to me that if they could obtain enough

material such that a small speck of it was lethal to

me then the whole unexploded chunk would be lethal to

those two people and they are more than likely rotting

on the floor from a highly lethal dose of radiation.

. . .

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