Posted on 11/26/2016 6:34:43 PM PST by Innovative
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is concerned over a missing radioactive device from Iran’s Bushehr nuclear reactor, Saudi-owned Arab newspaper Asharq al-Awsat reported on Thursday. Aside from the security concerns, at the forefront in the GCC’s mind is what impact the radioactive device—wherever it may be today—could have on water supplies. According to the newspaper, the device went missing after the car transporting it was stolen. Thankfully, the vehicle was recovered, but the radioactive nuclear device was not so lucky.
The GCC has contacted the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) over the incident—both organizations are concerned that Iran’s nuclear program may pollute the waters in the Gulf, Asharq al-Awsat quoted GCC Emergency Management Center chairman, Adnan al-Tamimi, as saying.
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Calling Ted Kennedy. You are needed down at the bridge.
These Muzzies are more dangerous than monkeys with hand grenades.
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GCC concern over ‘missing’ Iranian nuclear device
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20161125-gcc-concern-over-missing-iranian-nuclear-device/
Stolen by the Mossad, ‘stolen’ by the Iranian military for use in secret facility - possibilities that come to mind.
FYI ping.
Iranian Radioactive Iridium-292 Device Stolen from Bushehr Transport Car
http://english.aawsat.com/2016/11/article55362750/missing-bushehr-radioactive-device-raises-concerns
Whoa..
This brought to mind the Palermo Senator incident from a few years back.
Iridium-192 has a half-life of 74 days.
Reports are using 192 and 292. Not sure if that’s a typo, confusion, or what.
If it is correct it shows that the Iranians are sloppy. Info about a theft in Kazaskstan 1999:
Kazakhstani tax police discovered several grams of radioactive iridium-192 at the Aktobemunai Engineering company in Aktyubinsk, western Kazakhstan, Interfax reported on 29 July 1999. The iridium was discovered in a container inside a car parked outside the company office, said Serik Tlegenov, a Kazakhstani tax police official. The iridium is believed to have been meant for illegal sale. Iridium-192 is a gamma radiation source used in gamma radiography equipment.
Abstract Number: 19990590
Headline: Radioactive Iridium Discovered at Kazakh Company
Date: 29 July 1999
Bibliography: FBIS Document FTS19990729000723
Orig. Src.: Interfax, 29 July 1999
Material: radioactive isotope
http://www.nti.org/analysis/articles/iridium-292-aktyubinsk-kazakhstan/
Typo, the isotopes are only 164 to 199 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_iridium
Thanks! So, if the material stolen was indeed Iridium 192, does that mean it’s useful creating panic but not crispy crittering?
It has a half-life of 74 days, bad for the person open the box, but not useful for a dirty bomb. In other words good to scare the public, but no real threat.
Well, FWIW, I think it could present one mother of an economic threat depending on how it was deployed. I’m not alone in needing a copy of Physics for Dummies. This also assumes that it was Iridium 192 that was stolen.
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