Re: Scientist plants radioactive material in rival's office

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

Has anyone heard about the size of the source used, or

the exposure rate the victim was exposed to?



--- Susan L Gawarecki <loc@icx.net> wrote:

> Scientist plants radioactive material in rival's

> office

> 

> Associated Press

> Sept. 29, 2003 07:05 AM

> 

> BEIJING - A Chinese nuclear scientist has been given

> a suspended death 

> sentence for planting radioactive materials in the

> office of a business 

> rival, sickening the man and 74 other people,

> official newspapers 

> reported Monday.

> 

> Nuclear medicine researcher Gu Jiming stashed a case

> containing pellets 

> of iridium 192 above ceiling panels at a hospital in

> the southern city 

> of Guangzhou, the Beijing Evening News reported.

> 

> Soon after the victim - identified only by his

> surname, Liu - began 

> complaining of fatigue, loss of appetite, headaches

> and vomiting, the 

> paper said.

> 

> A medical checkup two months later revealed serious

> irregularities in 

> his white blood cell count. At that point his office

> was searched with 

> detection equipment and the radioactive materials

> discovered.

> 

> Others at the hospital also complained of fatigue,

> memory loss, bleeding 

> gums and other symptoms, the report said. A nurse

> who was five months 

> pregnant nearly suffered a miscarriage because of

> the radiation 

> exposure, it said.

> 

. . .



=====

"Self-criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the public soul."

Adlai Stevenson



-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com



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