RE: So, you think you have problems with radioactive sources?

["Jacobus, John (NIH/OD/ORS)" <jacobusj@ors.od.nih.gov>]

Ted,

Why is this phony?  Didn't the accident in Gioania, Brazil, involve the spreading of Cs-137?  Don't you think a similar incident in the US or other country lead to a significant level of contamination, inhalation, and panic?

 

-- John

John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
3050 Traymore Lane
Bowie, MD  20715-2024

E-mail:  jenday1@email.msn.com (H)     

-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Rockwell [mailto:tedrock@CPCUG.ORG]
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 5:09 PM
To: Tom Morgan; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: RE: So, you think you have problems with radioactive sources?

Granted that a loose Co-60 source could hurt a lot of people if they handle it without knowing what they have.  That's a real problem.  But I resent their tying it to a "dirty bomb."  That's phony.

 

TR

 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu [mailto:owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu]On Behalf Of Tom Morgan
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 4:10 PM
To: RadSafe (radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu)
Subject: So, you think you have problems with radioactive sources?

Recent article in the Washington Post:

 

http://www.msnbc.com/news/833338.asp?0sl=-12

 

Thomas L. Morgan, PhD

Director, Health Physics

Radiation Safety Officer

Isotope Products Laboratories

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