To: bonesmccoy
When the suitcase fails to lite the nuclear candle, it is then still an effective dirty bomb ... all it's innards get highly irradiated by the high, yet non-explosive neutron flux and the explosion expels fragments and aerosols that are radiocative.
3,690 posted on
12/25/2003 8:05:37 AM PST by
bvw
To: bvw
You guys keep writing about radiological contamination from an explosive. I'm not very concerned about our ability to contain and handle such problems. While the area would be radioactive for a while, my understanding is that very few isotopes have such extended half-lifes that it represents a long-term problem.
If it were plutonium that would be one thing, but other elements do not have such lengthy half-lives.
3,705 posted on
12/25/2003 9:35:25 AM PST by
bonesmccoy
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To: bvw
Don't we have plenty of radiation detectors that are not visible?
3,715 posted on
12/25/2003 11:06:16 AM PST by
JustPiper
(Following the course of least resistance makes for crooked rivers and crooked men)
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