RE: 'Dirty Bomb' Was Major New Year's Worry

[Susan L Gawarecki <loc@icx.net>]

> The scientists sent in a robot to snag a duffel bag in which the man had

> been storing a cigar-size radium pellet -- which is used to treat uterine

> cancer -- since he found the shiny stainless-steel object three years

> before. Not knowing what the object was, he had wrapped it in his nighttime

> pillow.

> 

> Officials said he has not exhibited any signs of ill health, yet. The man,

> whose name could not be obtained, was released.



Does this story imply that this homeless man had been sleeping on a 

"cigar-size radium pellet" for three years?  Did any of you HPs work up 

a dose for him yet?  I can't imagine a pillow or duffel bag would 

provide much shielding.

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Susan L. Gawarecki, Ph.D., Executive Director

Oak Ridge Reservation Local Oversight Committee

102 Robertsville Road, Suite B, Oak Ridge, TN 37830

Toll free 888-770-3073 ~ www.local-oversight.org

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