Re: Article: High Security Trips Up Some Irradiated Patients,Doctors Say

[Ted de Castro <tdc@XRAYTED.COM>]

We are talking a suicide terrorist - to cause terror with radiation he

doesn't have to kill anyone and doesn't have to live long to do it - in

fact dying on the spot from radiation effects might be quite effective.



Of course I can think of a way one could be even more effective and kill

hundreds and nearly shut down air travel and right past current

security.  But since it is so very doable - I won't even hint at

details.



> "Franta, Jaroslav" wrote:

> 

> >  Is it realistic to think someone would hide a harmful amount of

> > radioactivity in a body cavity?

> >

> 

> Just as realistic as flying a plane into a building!  Suicide is

> suicide.

> ***********

> 

> Excuse me ?

> 

> ....are you saying that someone could carry enough activity in some

> body cavity to kill hundreds, or even thousands of people, without

> dying on the spot ??

> 

> That would be a neat trick !

>  ....it would probably involve nothing short of a pretty powerful

> criticality burst

> (OK, I get it -- the guy swallows a bunch of plutonium pellets, and

> then to activate the thing, he gulps down a half-gallon of beer :-)

> 

> ....but I suspect that the Cerenkov radiation would be a dead giveaway

> -- most people probably wouldn't hang around to get a big enough dose,

> as the guy starts chucking up his infernal meal !

> 

> Ghastly idea.

> Jaro

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