RE: RE: MEDHP-SEC: Article: High Security Trips Up Some IrradiatedPatients, Doctors Say

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

My guess is that they are focused on radionuclides that could pose a "real"

threat of long term exposure, like Cs-137 or Co-60.  However, it the purpose

is to frighten people, why not use I-131? Once again, we are not thinking

creatively.



-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist



jenday1@msn.com

-----Original Message-----

From: Jim Hardeman

Sent: 12/4/2002 6:04:59 PM

To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

Subject: RE: MEDHP-SEC: Article: High Security Trips Up Some

IrradiatedPatients, Doctors Say



Jaro -

 

>From what I recently heard in Washington, DC at the recent American Nuclear

Society (ANS), neither NRC, EPA, DOE nor the Office of Homeland Security

consider I-131 to be an "excellent candidate" for a dirty bomb ... primarily

due to the short half-life.

. . .

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