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RE: Missing Exit Signs
I wonder if I would want the media to determine what
is news or not news, harmful or not harmful to the
public. I would prefer to have different elements
i.e., the New York Times verses the Washington Post,
present different views of a subject.
--- "Flanigan, Floyd" <Floyd.Flanigan@nmcco.com>
wrote:
> 10 cool points to Harry for having the most Greek
> sounding last name I have ever heard. I have a great
> admiration for their culture and envy all who occupy
> the Greek Isles. Oh yah....thanx for the
> concurrance. If only the media could be made to
> understand the harm they sometimes do.....but then
> again, that would be assuming it would bother them
> in the first place.
>
> Floyd W. Flanigan B.S.Nuc.H.P.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
> [mailto:owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu]On Behalf
> Of Anagnostopoulos,
> Harry W.
> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 9:24 AM
> To: 'John Jacobus'; Jaro; Radsafe
> Subject: RE: Missing Exit Signs
>
>
> True, but terrorist bombings are often followed by
> phone calls to the media
> claiming responsibility.
>
> I imagine that the message might include the idea
> that a deadly radioactive
> element was in the bomb, and that the responders
> cannot detect it! I'd guess
> that the media would run with it w/o checking the
> facts, leading to the fear
> and panic.
>
> My ramblings only.
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-radsafe@list.Vanderbilt.Edu
> [mailto:owner-radsafe@list.Vanderbilt.Edu]On Behalf
> Of John Jacobus
> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 7:14 AM
> To: Jaro; Radsafe
> Subject: RE: Missing Exit Signs
>
>
> I would think that the purpose of a radiological
> dispersion device is to creat fear an panic. If the
> first responsers could not detect the radionuclide,
> i.e., tritium in any form, because they were using
> GM
> or exposure rate meters, the terrorist would have
> lost
> the edge in creating panic.
>
> --- Jaro <jaro-10kbq@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> > Franz wrote:
> > I would say, that trying to use tritium exit signs
> > as an RDD, is ridiculous.
> > If they were of the type I know - filled with
> > gaseous HT - sure no cleanup
> > would be necessary and would not cost a single
> cent,
> > because within a few
> > minutes all of this gas would have been dispersed
> > and diluted to ambient
> > levels. There would be no mess <SNIP>
> >
> > I wonder about that -- presumably an RDD involves
> > some sort of explosion.
> > Wouldn't that cause at least some part of the HT
> to
> > burn and form HTO ?
> > While most of that would also disperse as vapour,
> > some might also cause a
> > mess.... any guesses how much ?
> > By the way, a colleague pointed out that the 55 Ci
> > in the exit signs would
> > by now have decayed to 25 Ci, due to 14 years of
> > decay (12.3 yr half-life).
> >
> > Jaro
> > http://www.cns-snc.ca/branches/quebec/quebec.html
> >
> >
> >
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