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To: maceng2 who wrote (171572)	6/10/2002 1:31:55 PM
From: Giordano Bruno	Respond to of 436258

PB, alternate site... terrorismanswers.com Scroll down to check sources.

To: maceng2 who wrote (171572)	6/10/2002 1:35:06 PM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

ok just listening to the news here... Pakistan is not the problem area imho re: nuclear waste. Search on "Nuclear Waste" and "Chechnia" to get an idea. ...Some areas of Chechnia "glows in the dark" from nuclear waste that is unattended.

To: maceng2 who wrote (171572)	6/12/2002 9:24:16 AM
From: maceng2	Respond to of 436258

Re nuclear waste problems. An example why you don't need to bring Pakistan into the equation to build a "dirty bomb" UN hunts lost Georgian radiation sources newscientist.com 13:54 11 June 02 NewScientist.com news service The United Nations has launched an expedition in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia to recover abandoned radioactive equipment that could be used to construct a so-called "dirty bomb". Radiation experts from the UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are searching an area in western Georgia stretching 550 square kilometres for two Strontium 90 generators - the last such generators believed to be "missing" in Georgia. The generators are thought to have been used for power in former Soviet military compounds. The hunt coincides with news of the arrest of a man allegedly involved in an al Qa'eda plot to detonate a dirty bomb somewhere in the US. But there is no information on the device involved in the alleged plot. Many defence experts believe terrorists would find it easier to acquire radioactive materials inside America, than to smuggle them into the country. The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission estimates that 200 radiation sources used for medical and industrial purposes go missing in the US each year. A spokeswoman for the IAEA says: "Strontium 90 is probably one of the most potent radioactive sources." But the radioactive material in the Georgian generators is incorporated in a solid ceramic, making it poorly suited for use in a dirty bomb, she says. Search and secure Six similar Strontium 90 generators have been recovered from Georgia since 1998. Two Georgian forestry workers that discovered two of the generators in February 2002 are still being treated in France and Russia for radiation sickness and burns. The IAEA plans to conduct aerial searches of Georgia for other radioactive materials later this year. In recent years the agency has conducted other expeditions to recover or secure radioactive materials in countries including Uganda and Afghanistan. Constructing a Radiological Dispersal Device or "dirty bomb" involves packing radioactive material around or inside a conventional explosive device. By contrast, a nuclear weapon releases enormous amounts of energy by splitting or fusing atoms. Weapons experts also stress that a dirty bomb would cause far less damage that a nuclear weapon. But they say detonation of such a device could result in long-term radioactive contamination. The Journal of the Federation of American Scientists has conducted a study of three possible scenarios involving dirty bombs detonated in populated areas of the US. This indicates that a few hundred deaths would occur immediately, but many people could suffer contamination-related illness in the long-term. Will Knight