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Re: Scientist plants radioactive material in rival's office



I think it said it was a radiography source.  Those arte usually multi-Curie

in size.



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From: "John Jacobus" <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>

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Subject: Re: Scientist plants radioactive material in rival's office





> 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.

> >

> . . .

>

> =====

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