Re: A "dirty bomb" question

["Fred Dawson" <fd003f0606@blueyonder.co.uk>]

Enough for the radiation to be detected by first responders and thus engender pubic panic !



Fred Dawson

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  From: LNMolino@AOL.COM 

  To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu 

  Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 3:17 AM

  Subject: A "dirty bomb" question





  As most of you know I teach in a federally sponsored (DHS ODP) training program for Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD).



  I had a fellow instructor present me with a question that he could not answer during our RAD/Nuclear module.



  How many elements from smoke detectors would it take to make an "effective" dirty bomb?



  Note that as for effective we are speaking in terms of giving us (response forces) a reading on a meter of greater than naturally occurring background.



  Please remember that the answer we seek is not technical in nature nor do we want the exact formula to build such a device just an answer that we "lay" person instructors need to answer the question of a response oriented student.



  Feel free to answer here on the list or to me directly.



  Thank you.



  Louis N. Molino, Sr., CET

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