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.
>
Strange: No more comments to this. OTOH - I guess few Radsafers have access 
to Itar-Tass. I have not left the idea that someone may have made up a story 
and simply wrote "one million" (becquerel) because it looked like "much" and 
then our TT journalist didn't get the quantitative aspect either.

The TT people are no good at analytical reading - for instance - the Turkish 
radiation accident (total dose - the order of 15 Sv = 1500 rem I think) in 
January came out as "Turkish nuclear power accident". After 11 hours they 
realized that they were wrong - and just changed the title and then dropped 
the topic: Not sensational enough any longer - we saw much more about the 
Tricastin accident (one person got approx. 0.34 Sv).

Time to sleep in Stockholm - good night,

Bjorn Cedervall,  bcradsafers@hotmail.com

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