Re: ABC's Depleted Uranium Smuggling Article

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

I agree that the detection of DU would be as much as a

terrorist attack as the use of HEU or any other

radionuclide.  I am surprised, or may be I should not

be, that others do not see it that way.  



--- Gv1@AOL.COM wrote:

> Once again, good analysis for possible causes for

> why they may or may not 

> detect DU instead of HEU, but the public is not

> going to think their ability to 

> detect HEU is any better than DU.  Perhaps, the port

> personnel should have 

> simply stated that they are not interested in DU and

> therefore do not look for 

> this material.  Perhaps their process was broken,

> but we'll never know...  

> 

> I would think a dirty bomb with DU would be just as

> scary to the public as 

> any other dirty bomb, because you could detect the

> beta along with the even more 

> deadly alpha being emitted.  You can see reporters

> with a frisker alarming 

> the public at a few hundred counts above background.

> 

> Glen Vickers

> 





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-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com



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