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Re: Nova - Dirty Bombs - Who is their expert - FYI
When technical people compare the Goiania Accident and Dirty Bomb, no
doubt Goiania is the best scenario, and I do believe the response in case of
a Dirty Bomb wouldn't be worst than the Goiania accident.
If you consider response for developed countries like USA, that have enough
equipment and personal, material resources, economic resources, medical
support and Waste Repository to transfer the waste generated, the technical
response is not the more complex problem. If you consider developing
countries or even those with good level for technical response, the
situation is completely different, taking into account the capacity of each.
Not only technical response was the main aspect of Goiania's radiological
accident, but also the management of conflicts - social, psychological,
political, economic, and misunderstanding problems had to be faced in
Goiania. Of these, stigmatization and discrimination against the victims and
against the main products of the city (state). - No dear colleagues, it is
not only the technical response to deal with during an accident, but rather
all the above mentioned conflicts present lessons that must be analyzed to
improve safety culture and experience to be shared.
There is still much to be learned from the Radiological Accident in Goiania,
even 15 years were lapsed.
I agree with Lexi Krock and Rebecca Deusser describing the Chronology of
Events (in the site provided by Busby)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/dirtybomb/
have mentioned about Goiania: The incident -- a radiation disaster second
only to Chernobyl in size and scope. I would like to discuss with
Jose de Julio Rozental
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Subject: Nova - Dirty Bombs - Who is their expert - FYI
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/dirtybomb/
Dr. Charles Ferguson is Scientist-in-Residence based in the Washington D.C.
Office of the Center for Nonproliferation Studies. He joined CNS from the
U.S. Department of State, where he was a Foreign Affairs Officer in the
Office of the Senior Coordinator for Nuclear Safety in the Bureau of
Nonproliferation. At the State Department, he helped coordinate U.S.
government interagency nuclear safety policy on decommissioned Russian
marine nuclear reactors, the Korean Peninsula Energy Development
Organization (KEDO) light water reactor project in the DPRK, Indian and
Pakistani commercial nuclear power plants, and Russian plutonium production
reactors. He has also served as a nuclear arms control and non-proliferation
analyst at the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), where he directed
the Nuclear Policy Project. At FAS, he analyzed many arms control and
nonproliferation issues, including missile defense, the Comprehensive Test
Ban Treaty, and deep cuts in nuclear arsenals. His !
public policy articles, commentaries, and letters have appeared in Arms
Control Today, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Defense News,
Disarmament Diplomacy, The Naval War College Review, Physics Today, The FAS
Public Interest Report, The Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post.
A United States Naval Academy alumnus, achieving a B.S. degree with
distinction in physics and a commission as an officer in the U.S. Navy, he
graduated from the Naval Nuclear Power School and the Submarine Officers
School. While supervising an engineering crew of a nuclear power and
propulsion plant on a fleet ballistic missile submarine, he also served as
that ship's sonar and reactor controls officer. Upon leaving the Navy, he
earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. in physics from Boston University. Dr. Ferguson
has also worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Space Telescope
Science Institute, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and the
Institute for Physical Science and Technology at the University of Maryland.
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