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.

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I forgot to mention, that the total amount of Cs-137 spread over Austria

after the Chernobyl accident has been estimated to about 5 g. Austria was

one of the most affected countries - most probably "the" most affected -  in

Europe and the world.



Franz









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