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RE: 'Dirty Bomb' Was Major New Year's Worry
A radium rabbit?
Bob Cherry
bobcherry@cox.net
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[mailto:owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu] On Behalf Of John Jacobus
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 5:54 PM
To: Susan L Gawarecki; RADSAFE
Subject: 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
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John Jacobus, MS
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