Re: Dirty bomb scenario

[muckerheide <muckerheide@attbi.com>]

 From: "Rob Gunter" <rgunter@SEC-TN.COM>



> Greetings All,

> 

> I think we will see a re-examination (or at least a realistic view of

> relative risk) of the LNT right about the time someone suggests demolishing

> Manhattan to eliminate a few pCi/g of Ir.



Not much diff from Yucca Mt, or Hanford. But who's telling the public.



>I read a story recently

> (referenced here?) about a reactor in Maine that is being decommissioned.

> Suddenly everyone is becoming aware of the high price we pay for trivial

> risk.  Once it starts REALLY hitting our pocketbooks, a more realistic

> scenario should unfold.



But they didn't protest from the story about removing Times Beach MO because

they had sprayed oil with PCBs to keep the dust down!? :-)

 

> -Rob

> 

> Robert J. Gunter, CHP

> 

> Follow the money....

Amen! That's what drives the rad protection racket.

Thanks, Jim

 

> *******************

> The Federation of American Scientists has an assessment of the "Dirty

> Bomb" scenario worth reading:

> 

> Dirty Bombs: Response to a Threat

> The US has indicated its willingness to spend hundreds of billions of

> dollars to combat threats that are, in our view, far less likely

> to occur

> than a radiological attack. This includes funding defensive measures

> that are far less likely to succeed than the measures that we

> propose in

> this testimony. The comparatively modest investments to reduce the

> danger of radiological attack surely deserve priority support.

> =Snip=

> See:

> http://www.fas.org/faspir/2002/v55n2/index.html

> 

> 

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