Re: PS. Chechenian theft of cobalt 60

["Bjorn Cedervall" <bcradsafers@hotmail.com>]

>Seems unlikely that this amount would cause
>any deaths or be able to "contaminate" large areas much.

Yes it seems like they must have lost a bunch of zeroes. (Off topic PS. 
Abacus: I noticed 3 years ago in a central store in Almaty, Kazakhstan, 
where they sold pocket calculators that they used them to _show_ the costs 
of various items to foreigners whereas the calculations (what to pay) were 
all with the abacus.) Bjorn

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