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

[Dimiter Popoff <k.merritt@larc.nasa.gov>]

 Do you actually know what their instrumentation is or is this just another

summary of the kind "it is OK because it just has to be"? I would really

be interested in the physics behind a pager-sized detector capable to

see neutrons and stay blind for the gamma... or have the resolution it

takes to see which is which.



Dimiter



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Dimiter Popoff

Transgalactic Instruments, Gourko Str. 25 b, 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria

http://transgalactic.freeyellow.com





> Do not underestimate their instrumentation.  They are designed to look for 

> weapons not radiographers, and I would not expect radiographers to be 

> congregating in public areas with their sources.  In any event, if they 

> detected a radiography source it would (hopefully) be accompanied by a 

> person authorized to be in possession of it so it would not show up as an 

> anomalous event.

> 

> At 11:06 PM 1/7/04, you wrote:

> >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.

> 

> Kim Merritt

> Radiation/Laser Safety Officer

> HazMed, Inc.

> NASA Langley Research Center

> Hampton, VA

> (757)864-3210

> <mailto:k.merritt@larc.nasa.gov>

> 

>



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