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

[Jose Julio Rozental <joseroze@netvision.net.il>]

Dear colleagues, this an impressive press information, with due respect,

very important to be studied by regulatory authorities and international

organizations, communicators and for all of us dealing with radioactive

sources.



Reading this document one can get many considerations:



a) Paranoia,

b) Phobia

c) Kafka explain

d) real defense and attitude

e) Chernobyl and Goiania Misunderstanding (*)



(*) in Goiania was one of the cause of discrimination of people and main

products







I think there are many lessons to be learned...





Jose Julio Rozental

General coordinator to respond the Goiania Accident

joseroze@netvision.net.il

Israel





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.



Five tense hours after their radiation detectors had spiked, officials

concluded there was no security crisis in the storage locker.







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