RE: Dirty Bomb - CNN Accuracy?

["Ted Rockwell" <tedrock@CPCUG.ORG>]

> Do you really think someone contaminated with

radioactive materials should go home and contaminate

car, family and home or should they go to the nearest

hospital that has plans in place for decontamination

prior to possible treatment?



That's a really important question!  If we maintain the fiction that even in

a war-time attack, a few-millirem dose is to be treated as a threat to

public health, then we may make it so.  If, instead, the NRC's emergency

one-time dose of 25 rem is accepted as tolerable under these circumstances,

then such an event could be brushed off as an inconvenient nuisance.  And

for a while we might have to work around some blocked off decon areas, just

as if they were construction or crime zones.



The choice is ours.  We can make the terrorist's job easy, or makes his

efforts ineffective, at least in this area.



Ted Rockwell





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