Re: Surviving a Dirty Bomb

["Franz Schoenhofer" <franz.schoenhofer@CHELLO.AT>]

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Von: Don Jordan <ramservices@LSOL.NET>

An: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Datum: Samstag, 15. Juni 2002 02:32

Betreff: Re: Surviving a Dirty Bomb





>One of the paragraphs quoted by Dr. Gawarecki stated:

>

>"Just imagine if Timothy McVeigh had put five pounds of radioactive

>material and blew that up in Oklahoma. . . . No more people would have

>probably died than did."

>

>Apparently some experts still have some difficulties with radioactive

>material quantities and related quantities.  After hearing another "expert"

>last fall discuss the horrific consequences if one of the Sept. 11

hijackers

>had carried on board a "shoebox containing 10 pounds of Cs-137", I did a

>rough calculation of one's life expectancy in proximity to 10 pounds (about

>300,000 curies) of Cs-137 and came up with a few seconds .  It didn't get

>much longer with shoebox shielding either.

>

>The educational effort obviously still has a long way to go.   I think that

>all "experts" contributing to the public debate on this issue should be

>asked a few basic questions - like, "What's a half-life?" - before they are

>allowed to speak.

>





Don,



Great, great, great!



One should not only question the scientific qualification of "anti's"

(though they usually have none, but this should be checked from case by

case), but also the qualification of "pro's"! I have not dared to comment on

this special case, because I have done similar things before and have been

flamed - being arrogant, anti-US etc.  This is the usual method to silence

criticism nowadays....... I think this has no place in the scientific world.

Or has it?



Franz









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