RE: Study Details Steps To Reduce Dirty Bomb Threat

["joseroze@netvision.net.il" <joseroze@netvision.net.il>]

Let me add



Commercial Devices Could Fuel 'Dirty Bombs' 

Report Outlines Threat From Lax Controls 





By Joby Warrick

Washington Post Staff Writer

Thursday, January 16, 2003; Page A14 



Tens of thousands of radioactive devices currently used in medicine and

industry are powerful enough to inflict major damage if used by terrorists

in a "dirty bomb," yet governments worldwide have failed to take steps

needed to prevent them from falling into the wrong hands, according to a

study scheduled for release today.

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Jose Julio Rozental

joseroze@netvision.net.il

Brazil, until January 26



Original Message:

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From: John Jacobus crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM

Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 11:26:17 -0800 (PST)

To: know_nukes@yahoogroups.com, radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

Subject: Study Details Steps To Reduce Dirty Bomb Threat







I think that this report, Commercial Radioactive Sources: Surveying the

Security Risks by Charles D. Ferguson, Tahseen Kazi, and Judith Perera, was

pointed out on this list before.  Here is its summary and location.



http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/week/030113.htm



 



 





-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com





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