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RE: NJ Gets Seaport Radiation Detector
This happens with us too with the desiccant in packages with electronic products. Amen on the "get used to it" and the media frenzy surrounding it.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-radsafe@list.Vanderbilt.Edu [SMTP:owner-radsafe@list.Vanderbilt.Edu] On Behalf Of John Jacobus
> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 5:41 AM
> To: Tsurikov, Nick; Michael J Vala; radsafe@list.Vanderbilt.Edu
> Subject: RE: NJ Gets Seaport Radiation Detector
>
> There was an incident about a year ago when a ship
> form Italy(?) was searched because radiation detectors
> showed higher than normal levels of activity. It was
> determined the activity was due to ceramic tiles that
> were made for naturally radioactive clays.
>
> Get used to this kind of response.
>
> --- "Tsurikov, Nick" <Nick.Tsurikov@iluka.com> wrote:
> > Dear Michael,
> >
> > You comment is probably valid but there are many
> > things that are shipped
> > across the globe that have nothing to do with
> > weapons but would trigger
> > detectors at, say, scrap metal yard. Examples would
> > be minerals like
> > tantalum concentrate or heavy mineral sands.
> >
> > OK, if there is any information out there it should
> > probably be not
> > posted openly... but - can we please have some
> > contact
> > addresses/names/e-mails/phone no's/etc of whom to
> > ask?
> >
> > If the limits are set too low, the shipping of
> > minerals mined outside US
> > to numerous processing facilities would be quite
> > impossible. If anyone
> > has any contacts with people enacting the 'seaport
> > detector' thing -
> > could you please ask them to do it having
> > NORM-TENORM stuff in mind?
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> > Nick Tsurikov
> >
> > Eneabba, Western Australia
> >
> > http://eneabba.net/
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Michael J Vala [mailto:michael.vala@bms.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday,24 March 2004 1:08 AM
> > To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
> > Subject: re: NJ Gets Seaport Radiation Detector
> >
> >
> >
> > Come on now! We already told the terrorists they
> > should not use Port
> > Elizabeth to send their radiological weapons, now we
> > should tell them
> > the limits of the detectors so they can try sneak
> > something past them.
> >
> > I really hopes no one provides this information or
> > even speculates. I
> > live 20 miles west of the World Trade Center site, I
> > saw the plume on
> > 9/11 against the brilliant blue sky. On 9/12, I
> > could smell the plume
> > from my front yard. We live in a different world,
> > please control your
> > curiosity.
> >
> > Mike Vala
> >
> >
> > Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 08:45:59 -0500
> > From: "Rick Orthen" <rorthen@cecinc.com>
> > Subject: RE: Article: N.J. Gets Seaport Radiation
> > Detectors
> >
> > Any info on whose equipment is being used there and
> > what the detection
> > trigger is?
> >
> >
> > Richard F. Orthen, CHMM
> > Senior Project Manager
> > Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc.
> > Four Triangle Lane, Suite 200
> > Export, PA 15632-9255
> > 724/327-5200, ext. 231
> > www.cecinc.com
> >
> >
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