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

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

Gee, won't the Ir-192 and Co-60 be better for making

"dirty bombs?"  They can only use one type of detector

at a time?



--- HP Dean <RadConDean@comcast.net> wrote:

> They were looking for a neutron signature, that is

> why.

> 

> Dean Chaney

>   ----- Original Message ----- 

>   From: NSSIHOU@AOL.COM 

>   To: mike_williamson@hc-sc.gc.ca ;

> radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu 

>   Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 8:06 PM

>   Subject: Re: 'Dirty Bomb' Was Major New Year's

> Worry

> 

> 

>   I saw some of the detectors on the TV and they

> didn't appear very sophisticated. 

> 

>   If they were really digging for radioactivity hot

> spots, how did they miss all the radiographers who

> carry large cobalt and Iridium sources to and from

> pipeline and refinery sites in the Houston area. 





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-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com



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