Re: San Diego Union Aricle

["Gerry Blackwood" <gpblackwood@justice.com>]

"8,000 radiation detectors, 300 isotope identifiers and

60 more-sophisticated radiation monitors across the

country, according to Robert C. Bonner, commissioner of

the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection."



Right and most of the guys had about 1 HOUR worth of

training with very limited supervision which is the

real reason why the false alarm rates are high and the

over reactions even higher..



Gerry





The reply is simple the reply should start with

"adequate training and supervision".....Gerry



On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 07:35:58 -0800, Joel Baumbaugh

wrote:





RADSAFERS,



I was dismayed when reading the front page of the San

Diego Union

today.  On the front page is an article "Detectors for

'dirty

bombs' set of by range of sources".  The article says

"the

detector sounded because someone present had just had

an X-ray that left

a residue of radiation.  You can find both the front

page:

http://subscribers.uniontrib.com/daily.pdf and the rest

of the article:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/.  The article is SO

full of inadequacies that I'm not sure how to address

it in a

"letter to the editor"...



Joel Baumbaugh (baumbaug@nosc.mil)

SSC-SD.



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