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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.
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.
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.
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."
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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Or Mercury
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why shouldn't they use the word, for centuries "booty" has meant things taken by violence or robbery. It comes from the middle low german bute, meaning the sharing of spoils. The slang word for either buttocks or vagina originated with the blacks in the late 1920s, and largely stayed in black culture until very recently.
Now that is a real priority for government.
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
......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.
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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It was also taken up in the 1970's by that middle-eastern guy Sheik Yerbouti.
Tiller's Rule: Never use a word in written form that you've only heard and never read. You will end up looking foolish.
I've witnessed that first hand on two occasions where colleagues had to undergo procedures using radioactive substances. One was a lymphoma scan of some sort and the other a gallbladder scan using 99mTc. Both made my Geiger counter scream. The gallbladder guy was 2000x background for a few hours until it was 'eliminated' and/or decayed.
Tiller's Rule: Never use a word in written form that you've only heard and never read. You will end up looking foolish.
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.
Birds are not dinosaur descendants;birds are dinosaurs, for all useful meanings of "birds", "are" and "dinosaurs"
late 70s were "recently", young 'un
The fact that I even know who Frank Zappa is shows I'm no young 'un :-)
I was in my mid-teens in '79.
Tiller's Rule: Never use a word in written form that you've only heard and never read. You will end up looking foolish.
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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