[ RadSafe ] Minute amount of enriched uranium missing

[farbersa at optonline.net]

Hi all:

The comment by George Stanford reminded me of a quote attributed to George Bernard Shaw:
"A newspaper is an institution that can't tell the difference between a bicycle accident and the collapse of a civilization."

Things haven't changed much in 100 years.

Stewart Farber

----- Original Message -----
From: George Stanford <gstanford at aya.yale.edu>
Date: Saturday, June 25, 2005 1:42 am
Subject: [ RadSafe ] Minute amount of enriched uranium missing

> 
> The story about the missing 1.7 mg of uranium
> made my day -- the ludicrous over-reaction by
> officialdom and the Associated Press.  The
> missing uranium was completely harmless,
> obviously -- enough to make speck about
> 15 mils in diameter (less than 1/2 mm)..
> 
> Number of such "neutron-detecting devices" you'd
> need to collect to make a bomb?  At least 10 million
> -- and much more if the enrichment is not 100%,
> 
> Well, I guess the Associated Press is correct -- 1.7
> milligrams is definitely not enough to make a bomb.
> 
> But it must have been a really, really slow news day.
> 
> And they slighted the real story -- the preposterous
> news that officials ordered a "thorough investigation"
> and even sent inspectors.
> 
> Thanks for the day-brightener.
> 
>         George Stanford
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> 
> At 07:40 PM 6/24/2005, Sandy Perle wrote:
> 
> Minute amount of enriched uranium missing from nuclear power plant in
> Japan
> 
> TOKYO (AP) - A small amount of enriched uranium - not enough to make
> a bomb - has gone missing from a nuclear power plant in central
> Japan, the Science Ministry said Friday.
>