[TonyInOhio]

Sorry if I'm playing catch-up, but a NEST team isn't generally sent into a situation unless they are investigating nuclear devices?

I picked this up off of the previously-posted ABC News smuggles nuclear material (Not!)

: Now the Liberian ship off the coast of NJ has SEALs and the DOE's N.E.S.T. teams swarming all over it! A Neutron detector, not a standard Geiger counter was what was tripped! THAT is where we should be scared...how much material was smuggled in on Oil Tankers BEFORE we started checking?

Pucker, indeed!

Tony

[Peach]

A neutron detector is what picked this up? Jeez. I know my internal alert chart went from orange to red in the instant I read your post.

[EternalHope]

Can you confirm that a neutron detector was what was tripped? I have been looking for that specific piece of into, and have not seen it in any news accounts. Thanks.

BTW: Neutrons are much more likely to be emitted from enriched uranium or plutonium than from any other source. That makes neutron emissions a good way to check for possible nukes.

BTW2: The idiotic news story about smuggling radioactive material into the U.S. was based on U-238. Almost zero neutrons are emitted from U-238. U-235 is the bad stuff. More proof the networks know nothing about nukes.

[ccmay]

A Neutron detector, not a standard Geiger counter was what was tripped!

Holy s**t. That is orders of magnitude more worrisome. This is not just some spilled medical waste that didn't get cleaned up. Neutron emission is the sine qua non of nuclear fission reactors and bombs.

-ccm