Re: Study Raises Projection For 'Dirty Bomb' Toll

["Jean-Pierre Degrange" <degrange@cepn.asso.fr>]

A short presentation of a new IAEA categorization of radioactive sources has

been made in the 12th issue of the European Alara Newsletter.



You will find it at the following link:

http://ean.cepn.asso.fr/EAN12/EAN-124.html





Jean-Pierre Degrange



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Jean-Pierre Degrange

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>From: John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>

>Subject: Re: Study Raises Projection For 'Dirty Bomb' Toll



>...



>What I would like to see is some scale like the IAEA's

>International Radiological Event Scale (IRES) to

>quantify the risk to the public.  For example, if the

>last material would result in an exposure of less than

>100 mrem (1 mSv) to the public in one year should have

>the lowest level of risk.  A source that was easily

>disperable and had a high risk of uptake would have

>the highest risk level.  Then, we could report that

>100 lost sources had a risk level of 5 (lowest), 20

>had a risk level of 4, etc.









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