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



I would like to know were he got a radium pellet from.



--- Susan L Gawarecki <loc@icx.net> wrote:

> > 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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-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

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