We're doomed!
Posted on 11/26/2010 4:10:20 PM PST by Smokeyblue
The shipment sent from Fargo, N.D., to Knoxville, Tenn., posed little threat, but its misplacement underscores the need to track low-hazard materials that could be used in small-scale terrorist attacks, experts say.
Reporting from Washington — A shipment of radioactive rods used for medical equipment that went missing Thanksgiving Day was found Friday in Tennessee by the shipping company FedEx.
Though the materials posed little threat to the public, the misplaced shipment underscores the need to track low-hazard materials that could be used in small-scale terrorist attacks, experts say.
The rods, used to calibrate quality control in CT scans, contain little energy and a low concentration of radiation, according to Sandra Munoz, a FedEx spokeswoman. The shipment was sent from Fargo, N.D., and was reported missing at its destination in Knoxville, Tenn. FedEx alerted all of its U.S. stations about the missing shipment.
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we can all sleep easier now.
Great, somebody finally decided to use FEDEX TRACKER.
We're doomed!
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We are doomed! We are doomed! We need more legislation and tighter government control!
writer is a dumbass.
The rods are for PET not CT.
I was just about to post something veerrry similar.
Missing radioactive rods?! Is this another TSA story of the ill effects of the body scanners?
This was the original story.
FedEx Searching for Radioactive Shipment That Vanished Between N.D. and Tenn.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2633417/posts
“the rods, which are used for quality control in CT scans, were being returned to their manufacturer in Knoxville, Tenn., from a hospital in Fargo, N.D. Three shipments left the hospital earlier this week, but only two arrived at their destination.”
I once worked in an old boatyard fixing up wood boats. It had a railway into the water and we would get the boats into the building which used to be a aircraft hanger for sea boats or something. Anyway it was damp and cold in the winter. In the back was a big furnace of some kind and we would burn all the old wood we saved up all year. A mountain of it. But that just took a bit of the chill off. I once suggested we get some old reactor rods from derelict Soviet subs somehow and bury them in the dirt floor and we would be warm all winter. Nobody had the vision to agree with me.
"Small scale"? Yeah right. Go rent "Dirty Bomb" to see what a few of these rods can do to a city like London after a single detonation.
So basically the system worked. The package was locked away in the last location it had traveled to before the label came off. It just took until the day after a holiday for someone to track which package it was.
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