[Candor7]

Thanks LucyT for the heads up on this

[Candor7]

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[happinesswithoutpeace]

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[FReepaholic]

Misleading headline. Junk yard workers find radioactive junk. Not an attack.

[Bean Counter]

I recall a similar incident a few years ago in one of the former Soviet republics. Someone found a device abandoned beside a road, and it turned out to be a highly radioactive heater of some sort that was hot enough to kill. I don’t think we ever got an accounting of where that came from either.

But this was not a “Dirty nuke attack” as the headline claims. Speculating what the material might have been used for is just that, speculation; and inflammatory speculation at that. While this is news worthy, it is not a terrorist incident.

[cripplecreek]

I think its a little overdone to call this an attack. This sort of thing has happened before. There was a similar case in Brazil some years ago. Highly radioactive metal has turned up in Europe with shipments from China. We’ve also had a couple of incidents of radioactive medical waste coming into Michigan from Canada.

[dljordan]

Applications Car scanning using Co60 γ-ray device. The β-decay energy is low and easily shielded. Both strong γ-lines are of same magnitude therefore 60Co is used as a γ-ray source with an energy around 1.3 MeV. This is a container that contains a small amount of cobalt-60. Main uses for 60Co: * As a tracer for cobalt in chemical reactions, * Sterilization of medical equipment, * Radiation source for medical radiotherapy, * Radiation source for industrial radiography, * Radioactive source for leveling devices and thickness gauges, * As a radioactive source for food irradiation and blood irradiation, and * As a radioactive source for laboratory use. Probably medical scrap. But hey, why waste a chance for hyteria.

[penelopesire]

article from India:

http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_police-in-dark-over-origin-of-cobalt-60-in-delhi_1370189

[Cicero]

This may have been an accident. Somebody was careless about disposing nuclear materials, or someone stole it and abandoned it. But this is certainly more than the usual story of something mildly radioactive. And I’m surprised that the media haven’t picked it up, since if it’s an accident it’s certainly an accident that shouldn’t have happened.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

What an awful way to go : (

[xkaydet65]

If Steve Emerson thinks this is important then i take it seriously. He knows the subject.

[353FMG]

It is a safe bet that Mother Theresa or her nuns had nothing to do with this.

[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

[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.