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RE: Study Details Steps To Reduce Dirty Bomb Threat
This is the solution presented by the Study Details Steps to Reduce Dirty
Bomb Threat:
Improve source controls by expanding programs to securely dispose of
sources no longer in use ("disused sources") and by intensifying already
active programs to track down and secure lost and discarded "orphan"
sources, especially in the former Soviet Union.
Enhance regulatory measures by assisting nations with weak source security
rules and by improving export control measures, especially end-user checks.
Prepare now for RDD attacks. Although risks from radioactive sources can be
significantly reduced in coming years, the RDD threat will never be
eliminated. Through public education, training of first responders, and
active planning exercises the impacts of a future RDD attack could be
greatly mitigated.
And, the following is what we have learned from the IAEA
http://www.iaea.org/worldatom/Press/Focus/RadSources/index.shtml
"What is needed is cradle-to-grave control of powerful radioactive sources
to protect them against terrorism or theft," says IAEA Director General
Mohamed ElBaradei.
"One of our priorities is to assist States in creating and strengthening
national regulatory infrastructures to ensure that these radioactive
sources are appropriately regulated and adequately secured at all times."
Mr. ElBaradei points out that while a number of countries which have
regulatory systems in place are urgently stepping up security measures many
countries lack the resources or the national structures to effectively
control radioactive sources.
However the same article also mention:
The radioactive materials needed to build a "dirty bomb" can be found in
almost any country in the world, and more than 100 countries may have
inadequate control and monitoring programs necessary to prevent or even
detect the theft of these materials.
Dear colleagues
The main problem is:
About 50% of those 100 countries do not are IAEA Member States - How to
control them?
Taking into account that 134 countries are IAEA Member States, the rest of
50% represent about 40% of countries IAEA Member States that also have
inadequate control.
What is the strategy urgently necessary to be implemented to improve
control, in both cases, if we think that a radioactive source, for large
impact, used in dirty bomb can be found today?
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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