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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.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Jacobus" <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>
To: "RADSAFE" <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 9:01 AM
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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