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a) I can
understand this as an exercise, specially taking into account the today’s news
that I sent to Radsafe:
“The appearance by
Mueller and Tenet also coincided with a recent upgrading of the national
terrorist threat level from "elevated" to "high." Tenet said intelligence points
to attacks that could occur this week, possibly using a "dirty bomb" that spews
out radiological material.”
b) What I can
comment with some association was the Radiological Accident in Juarez, Mexico,
occurred in 1983. A cobalt-60 (450 Ci) therapy device was stolen and
broken apart by a young man in Juarez. A small vial containing some 6,000 small
pin-head-sized Co-60 sealed sources was opened spilling some of the contents
into a pickup truck bed. The device was sold for scrap and ended up in recycled
steel.
In January 1984, a transport truck carrying a load of contaminated steel
took a wrong turn into Los Alamos National Laboratory and set-off gamma alarms,
thus the accident was discovered.
Jose Julio Rozental
Israel
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 1:57
AM
Subject: RE: Feedback: Detectors being
tested to spot radiation
How
are they to determine the "legitimate" cargo being transported versus the
suspect? Radioactive material is properly transported every day and I can
only envision the problems/hassles that this could cause with no real upside.
If these detectors are not located on every major thoroughfare, then what is
the point? And if they are only identifying the transport vehicle, then how
tough is it to dummy up a legitimate looking vehicle?
SK
I guess the real test is when a truck delivering radionuclides to a local
hospital passes by.
"J. J. Rozental" <joseroze@netvision.net.il>
wrote:
Feedback
Jose Julio Rozental
Israel
http://www.newbernsunjournal.com/Details.cfm?StoryID=7142
Run Date: 02/10/2003
Detectors being tested to spot radiation
By Peter Williams/Freedom ENC
JACKSONVILLE -- The Camp Lejeune area is one of
four test sites for a national system designed to detect a radioactive, or
"dirty" bomb.
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John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:
crispy_bird@yahoo.com
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