Exclusive: ‘Dirty’ Nuke Attack in New Delhi?

Family Security Matters ^ | April 15, 2010 | Paul Williams, PhD

[Diogenesis]

Co60 is penetrating.
An effect in minutes would be at the >2000 cgy level
and would yield CNS effects possibly consistent with
what they say.
The skin effect of blackness (could that be erythema?)
would be consistent or suggest much high delivered dose,
or that additional second material.

[Hardraade]

Scrap dealer Deepak Jain and his helpers lost consciousness when they came into contact with an irradiated piece of scrap metal

Test

[FReepaholic]

...You are a perfect terrorist foil...

Drat, you found me out. Hey, at least I'm perfect at something.

[Nuc1]

Probably a medical or gamma radiography source. Misplaced or tossed by people who should know better. Based upon the write up the other folks involved are dead ducks. Sad Co60 has a high energy gamma ray.

[Nuc1]

I think the point is it doesn’t appear to be someone building a dirty bomb. Further we don’t know with certainty that it was a cobalt source. Rapid blackenbing of skin would require a very intense source. Thousands perhaps tens of thousands of curies. Unless they played around with it for some time...I suspect there is more to this than we have been told.

[Candor7]

TEst exacfly, on a bunch of low aste junk yard workers.
There us every possibility this was no accident. The “passive” nature of the irradiation makes everyone assume it was it an attack. It should be an assumed attack until proven otherwise.

[Candor7]

Unless they played around with it for some time...>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

This was said to be a one off incident. Taking only a matter of minutes.

[Candor7]

To keep people safe, the response should be assumed attack until provenm otherwise. A guy like you in the right admin position with these devices or irradiated materials could get thousands killed in short order.I guess there is sommething that sepeartes the men from the boys. LOL.

Look,learn, and remember.

[FReepaholic]

...I guess there is sommething that sepeartes the men from the boys...

Yeah, like spelling.

[Candor7]

I do my best on the typong, I cam spell fine. But as a double amputee, I have to type with my toes.

[Nuc1]

Blackened skin in minutes? Something is going on here. Even at 2000 Rem per hour, such as a pipe inspection source, a five minute exposure would only yield 166.7 Rem. At ten minutes, twice that. While that exposure would not be good for you, unless you were sickly you would easily survive. The folks in the plant at Chernobyl only got tanned skin and they were standing on a floor covered with burned fuel pellets. Perhaps an industrial sterilization source? Say 50,000 Rem/hr? That would do it but how many sources at that activity level exist in the world in private hands? An inadvertent critically could do this but I think that unlikely. Maybe I am wrong about that inadvertent criticality. People w/o education and proper instrumentation could easily, with the right material, assemble critical mass. It was done in Japan some time ago at a fuel plant. Something more is going on here than this article suggests.

[Candor7]

I agree, There was metion of a substance that the scientists had identified but would not report what it was toi the news media in India. It must have been very powerful stuff, maybe a little bit of raw plutonium casing or something.