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RE: CSI Miami I-131 Espisode
For
what its worth, they contacted me also. I tried to appeal to their claim
that they wanted to do a "technically accurate show", and suggested that the
scenario itself was too unrealistic. After my response to them, they never
responded back again.
Doug
Minnema, PhD, CHP
National Nuclear Security Administration, US
DOE
In a message dated 2/10/2003 8:27:40 PM
Pacific Standard Time, cofer@NETTALLY.COM writes:
I agree; that was a pathethic display of health physics, and a
shame too, because these shows just continue to perpetuate radiophobia among
the masses, and we have a hard enough time getting out the facts without
just trash. Since the action took place in Miami, it would have been
under my agency's jurisdiction, not the NRC's, both I'm gratefull the
Bureau's name didn't come up because I don't want any association with such
junk.
Sadly, the writers did call and try to get
assistance. They knew the Florida State program would have jurisdiction,
and I tried to palm them off on you Mr. Cofer :-), but they weren't very
interested in real life information.
I haven't watched the show yet, so
don't know what they ended up doing. They initially wanted to try to
"kill" someone with three diagnostic dosages of Tc-99m, but at least I was
able to convince them that was utterly preposterous. I told them their
most effective "weapon" in a medical setting would be along the lines of a
Co-60 therapy source, but that Robin Cook had already written that story, and
suggested they try to get the rights to that, but they didn't think that
suggestion was very helpful.
I still have the writer's phone
number if anyone would like to call her, though I doubt she'd care about what
she got wrong. She certainly wasn't interested in many facts that
contradicted her little fantasy before she wrote the
script.
Barbara