[xcamel]

I remember a story - might be an urban legend - about medical (cancer) clinics set up in Mexico with radiation machines loaded with cobalt-60. The clinics failed and the machines were scavenged by the locals. By the time officials realized what had happened and made it to the area, they found kids wearing necklaces with “pretty blue glowing rocks” around their necks - very very scary.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Are there no farms in the UK? Crikey! Pretty much anyone in ‘Ag Country’ can get their hands on fertilizer and gasoline any day of the week, no questions asked. Even after the OKC bombing the Feds only tracked fertilizer sales for a few minutes...

Show of hands. Who amongst us doesn’t think acts of terrorism are going to escalate in the near future for many decades to come while our elected representatives sit on their hands and worry that we might be accidentally “wire tapping” terrorists?

Anyone? Buhler? Buhler? Yeesh!

[DBrow]

They clearly show several legit uses for Cs137, but offer no alternative.

What will women with cervical cancer do without Cs? What will the steelmakers use for thickness gages?

What do they propose- cobalt-60?

[HiTech RedNeck]

OK, so radioactive cesium is a deadly poison. So are about a skillion non radioactive chemicals which aren’t any harder to get.