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IP: Fissile Material Monitors in UK and False Alarm
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 09:45:41 -0400
------ Forwarded Message From: Paul Davey <paul () pdc co uk> Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 13:57:15 +0100 To: dave () farber net (Dave Farber) Subject: For IP: Fissile Material Monitors in UK and False Alarm This was in the Sunday Times here in the UK last week. Apart from the fact that detectors for dirty bombs and fissile material are deployed here in the UK, I find it remarkable that one radioactive bolt can be detected within a container of scrap metal. Full story is at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-523-393768,00.html?gavalidat e Here's some excerpts. Dirty bomb alert at port David Leppard A FULL-SCALE terrorist alert triggered by the arrival of a suspected dirty bomb at Felixstowe earlier this month has exposed serious flaws in Britains anti-terrorist defences. ... Earlier this year the Home Office and customs secretly installed a cordon of devices capable of detecting radioactive or fissile material ... Specialists from the National Radiological Protection Board and the Environment Agency found that the Tilbury incident was caused by a bolt 15mm by 8mm in size which had somehow picked up radiation and was buried in the pile of imported scrap metal regards Paul pd Consulting Ltd http://www.pdc.co.uk <http://www.pdc.co.uk/> Technical Architecture, System Integration and Interim Management Services ------ End of Forwarded Message
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