Re: Dirty Bomb - CNN Accuracy?

[Michael McNaughton <mcnaught@LANL.GOV>]

At 04:49 PM 06/11/2002 -0400, AndrewsJP@aol.com wrote:

>My guess is that the hospital identified the child as contaminated, then 

>washed her, then evaluated the contamination remaining and decided to 

>isolate her.



Please correct me if you know more, but according to reports I have read: 

the hospital personnel did not know how to evaluate the contamination, they 

did not know what to do, and they were afraid, so the child was not washed 

until the health-physics team arrived.



mike

Mike McNaughton

Los Alamos National Lab.

email: mcnaught@LANL.gov or mcnaughton@LANL.gov

phone: 505-667-6130



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