RE: Nova - Dirty Bombs - London Scenario question/critque

["Falo, Gerald A Dr HMJF" <Gerald.Falo@APG.AMEDD.ARMY.MIL>]

Stewart and all,



Your comments about the detection of a large source is well taken and a good

one. I also suspect that it would be easy to detect if people were alert and

ingenious enough to put all of it together.



With respect to incapacitation, wasn't the source in the Goiania accident,

about 1400 Ci, opened and dispersed without immediately incapacitating the

intial victim? I shouldn't think that it would be too difficult to imagine a

plausible - yet still not easy - scenario for dispersing CsCl in a dirty

bomb scenario. Although, I can imagine sublter, less dramatic radiological

terror acts.



Jerry Falo



How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards. - Spanish

proverb



The statements herein are entirely the fault of the author and in no way

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Gerald A. Falo, Ph.D., CHP

Henry M Jackson Foundation Professional Associate

United States Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine

Health Physics Program

gerald.falo@apg.amedd.army.mil

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