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Mexico's Stolen Radiation Truck: It Could Happen In the US
Lasrick writes "Tom Bielefeld, a physicist specializing in nuclear security, writes a detailed article that has some surprising revelations about nuclear security in the U.S. (and elsewhere). Although some security measures have been tightened since 9/11, the US does not require transports of category-1 to be protected by armed guards, and individual states don't have to provide lists of 'safe havens' to the transport company (and they often don't). And at hospitals and other buildings that house radioactive materials and devices, 'security conditions remain hair-raising, even when these facilities have been checked by inspectors.'"
radioactive gold kept disappearing. After a while a staff member's wife or fiance turned up and had radiation poisoning to her hand--someone was taking the gold to make a wedding ring, and didn't know it was radioactive.
I'm sure security is a little better than it was then, but small amounts of radioactive material will probably always be gettable.
No way. Couldn't happen here! Not in a million years. Someone is smoking some really strange shit to think we could just lose some radioactive material here in the US of A.
Oh - wait. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2...
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Control the populous with fear! Let's figure out a way to make them even more afraid of nuclear power so we can continue selling snakeoil solutions like solar and wind energy products.
just a terrifying notion even sends chills up our spleens?
There are more Mexicans living there than there are Americans. ... Trying to make a distinction between the two is quite pointless.
So what's the difference between a Mexican and an American?
About 100 lb?
A Mexican is an immigrant, or a migrant, and likely an illegal alien. An American citizen was either born here, with a US birth certificate, or a naturalized citizen. The difference is a legal status.
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Crime! It could happen in the US.
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Don't worry. The TSA has this all under control. They are now requiring the drivers of these transports to take their shoes off when they get into the cab. So, problem solved!
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
By executive order, all trucks and SUVs are hereby banned. All truck owners and SUV owners are required to surrender their vehicles to the United States for scrapping. Immediate compliance is mandatory.
another call for YET MORE pointless 'security.' soon the USA will be all security guards save for maybe a dozen citizens.
it is ALWAYS possible to provide more security / more armor plate / more locks. but economics is the science of making do with scarce resources--and here we must lest we suffer yet more death by a thousand paper cuts.
According the Wikipedia, the longest-lived radioactive gold isotope is Au-195, with a half life of only 186 days.
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Sheese. The Threat of the Month club. Every hospital in the world has mildly radioactive material. Even bananas are slightly radioactive. Even worse, many homes contain highly explosive natural gas. Even more worser, we are all being poisoned by bread containing gluten. Get a grip.
With the billions poured into "security" I'm left with the assumption that this is done on purpose, how else do you explain such a glaring error:?
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
But she would have had a platinum ring instead.
There are more Mexicans living there than there are Americans. ... Trying to make a distinction between the two is quite pointless.
So what's the difference between a Mexican and an American?
A mexican is an american.
But when you just say "american", the person could be from anywhere in america, from canada to argentina.
So you can't really compare those terms.
Yeah, this sounded like bunk to me to, but I found some real facts. The rings were made from gold beads which had been filled with radon and implanted in people. It's the radon decay products causing the radiation, not the gold. Here's a real journal article about this problem.
sharpies.
totally misused and abused sharpie markers.
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From TFA: "but there was still a risk that one of Mexico’s powerful criminal organizations would get to the radioactive booty first " (emphasis mine)
Sure, it's a correct sentence, and I admit I have the maturity of a 6-year old at times, but why word it this way? Who wrote this thing? Oh, wait... "Copyright © 2014 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists".. nevermind. It's obvious what they have on their minds. <homer>mmmmmm, radioactive boooty (slobber)</homer>
Or Mercury
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All Mexicans live in the U.S.?
Now that is a real priority for government.
sure fucking seems like it
About $10 an hour . . .
A lot of businesses, especially meat processing plants, prefer to hire illegal immigrants from Mexico because if they're injured on the job rather than deal with OSHA and worker's comp they can just fire them and have La Migra ship them back to Mexico at taxpayer expense.
"Think about how stupid the average person is. Now, realise that half of them are dumber than that." - George Carlin
And no one wants to foot the bill.
The lack of security around nuclear materials in the US has been well known for some time. One would think, given that it very much is a National Security concern, there would be copious funding for this. It isn't there! Either as a line item on Defense spending, or the National Security black budget. It isn't there! Want Corporations to pay for it? Good luck! There's no cost incentive in doing it, and they likely wouldn't get the contracts from the Government if they added into the cost of doing business. And if you suggested they take less of a profit to cover the cost, well you aren't very good at business are you!
BUT, we sure as hell can collect several hundred million citizens text messages every day, can't we?!?! Yes, I want there because both fall under the supposed concern of National Security!
My medical favorite is still the same waiting room for pre-natal patients and those waiting for the radioactive tracer or marker doses to be absorbed. Side by side. External techs have to remember to turn off their rad counters before going in. Even "roentgen" counters get set off. The more absent-minded ones then have to act as if their beepers, or cellphones had just recieved a call. "Hilarious".
About 100 lb?
Funny?
Then just above:
One is shit colored?
Troll?
You mods are hypocrite and racist.
Yeah he has a point. If the 'Murkan companies weren't being corrupt and abusing cheap labour then the Mexicans wouldn't be coming and stealing all the jobs that you don't want. Pay them a fair wage and the "best man" will get the job. Alas, the Mexican will still often be the best man for many of the jobs.
What a bigoted comment. You are wrong. A Mexican is a citizen of Mexico, regardless of where they currently are. Furthermore, no one is illegal. It's not possible by definition. Stop letting the propogandists manipulate you like a puppet.
So what's the difference between a Mexican and an American?
The difference is that Mexican women are attractive.
- SMI
......If something goes wrong the private corporation is a lot more likely to suffer consequences than the government. The local and international regulations put on corporations for source tracking and handling are quite stringent.
....I feel much better now. Government has been totally effective at assuring that corporations suffer consequences. Especially these days, since they pay to elect all of the lawmakers who deny culpability, bail them out, and then are retained as their consultants. America has nothing to worry about. Democracy works just the way we like it.
Well, geez, what could that mean? Oh, right: the metal in question was a mix of gold and something radioactive. It got stolen for the gold, and the radioactive part caused injury. Mystery solved.
They specifically include "byproduct materials" in their definition (along with "source materials" and "special nuclear materials", the weapons grade stuff you refer to), which includes just about every radioisotope with commercial or medical applications...
http://www.nrc.gov/materials.h...
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What is to guarantee that having an armed guard is going to protect the load in transit? A bottom-dollar gun-toting guard given a choice between getting shot for his minimum-wage job and saying "take it" ... isn't going to take a bullet.
That's if he (or she) isn't in the pisser when the truck is stolen.
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Mexicans lives in or come from Mexico. Being a Mexican does not mean that person is an immigrant.
Most Americans come from who knows where so we call these people (x-th generation) immigrants.
This fact is underlined by their blood line: 1/4 Italian, 1/3 Russian and so on.
Privacy is terrorism.
You seem to get it, somewhat. A Mexican is a Mexican, and if he's in the US, he is either here with legal papers, or he is an illegal alien. An American citizen is here by right. It doesn't matter if that citizen has a Mexican heritage, or Russian, or Ethiopian, or French, or Vietnamese. He is an AMERICAN, either by birth, or by naturalization. A Mexican is a citizen of Mexico. Get legal, or go home - that is my stance.
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