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From: finn%isi.edu@usc.edu (Greg Finn)
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Subject: Re: unconventional terror tactics (Iraq)
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Date: 16 Oct 90 01:11:36 GMT
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From: finn%isi.edu@usc.edu (Greg Finn)

In article <1990Oct15.033902.13042@cbnews.att.com> morgan@ms.uky.edu (Wes Morgan) writes:


> ...  I don't really believe that something as "hot" as rad-waste
> could be effectively smuggled into the US or Canada. ...

	That is not historically accurate.  This is from memory,
someone else can probably provide you with the attribution (try New
Scientist or Technology Review first).

	Approximately two years ago a truck was stolen.  In the truck
was a safe filled with radioactive cobalt.  The thieves sold the safe
as scrap in Mexico, where it was smelted, resulting in the
incorporation of the cobalt into reinforcing rods and cast table
supports.  Some workers at the smelter became quite ill from radiation
poisoning.  Product was shipped back into the USA by the truckload and
detected only by a incredible stroke of luck, some of the rods were
sent into a DOE plant where the exit detectors detected radioactivity
coming into the plant.

--- ggf