Russian border guards halt truck carrying radioactive materials

["Robert Atkinson" <robert.atkinson@genetix.com>]

Hi

Am I mistaken or was that not a truck load of chemicals that could be

used for explosives (and happened to be naturally radioactive, K40) was

stopped?

It's amazing what spin the press put on things. 

I hope no-one tells them about all that radioactive material we are

putting on our food and in our water (Potassium chloride in low sodium

salt and water softener salt).

I guess they missed the fact that it would not have been stopped if it

had been a Sodium based oxidizer!



Apologies for the slight rant,

Robert G8RPI.





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Russian border guards halt truck carrying radioactive materials



MOSCOW (AP) - Russian border guards stopped a truck loaded with 

radioactive materials on the border with the ex-Soviet republic of 

Georgia, officials said Tuesday.



The Mercedes truck, laden with 2 tons of aluminum and potassium 

powder whose radiation level was five times higher than the norm, was 

stopped Monday as it headed into Georgia, said Sergei Petrov, 

spokesman for the Emergency Situations Ministry's southern district.



Vladimir Dementyev, spokesman for the Russian Prosecutor's Office in 

the North Caucasus region, said that when mixed in certain 

proportions potassium and aluminum powder can be turned into 

explosive.



The truck's driver has been detained and an investigation is under 

way, Dementyev said.



Citing security officials, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported that 

the truck had been loaded in the southern Russian town of Pyatigorsk 

in the Stavropol region.

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