Stunning Response "Dirty Bombs (Nuclear) have been stopped at our border" it appears

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[xjcsa]

I’d pick the nuke. I know where I’m going if one of those hits my neighborhood and I’m fine with it. Dirty bomb, not so much, messy awful business that I don’t want to deal with.

Do all your neighbors know where they're going if the nuke hits? You'd sacrifice their lives to avoid dealing with a mess?

[Tammy8]

I live very near the border and work at a Port of Entry. I know there are a lot of measures in place to stop radioactive material from crossing, and thank goodness for that. I also know that no system is flawless. I know many people who are tasked with that job and never once has one of them said without a doubt it can’t be done. Technology is not without issues, there are miles and miles of open country to cover, not to mention private aircraft. Never say never.

[tanknetter]

Do all your neighbors know where they're going if the nuke hits? You'd sacrifice their lives to avoid dealing with a mess?

I believe he's saying that he'd rather die quickly due to instant incineration rather than slowly due to radiation poisoning.

[Squantos]

Watermelon trucks and or containers.....trust me !....:o)

[MWestMom]

Do all your neighbors know where they’re going if the nuke hits? You’d sacrifice their lives to avoid dealing with a mess?

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I hope they do. Not my decision to sacrifice their lives or not. This is just how I feel about either/or. I’m disabled and there wouldn’t be a lot of dealing with anything if I were at ground zero of a dirty bomb. Personal observation only.

[Squantos]

Just a couple hundred cases of old style coleman lantern mantels ......;o)

[VMI70]

....(hint, if you line a 10 foot wide by 10 foot high by 40 foot long trailer with enough lead to shield detection of a 1 foot cube of uranium. there is not a crane large enough in the world to pick it up, let alone load and unload it from a boat) get the hint....

Well, I did the math, and according to my calculations, if you put a cf of U in the trailer, and filled the rest of it up with Pb, 3,999 cf, then the cargo would weigh 1,422.23 tons.

The Thialf, a tandem lift crane, can lift 14,200 tons, so our trailer load is about 10% of its lifting capacity. The Mammoet can lift 4,000 tons.

Please feel free to check my calculations.

[Typical_Whitey]

Obama would never allow anyone to attack his homeland...

[reasonisfaith]

The best way to prevent a dirty bomb explosion is if terrorists know that in retaliation we will nuke either their country or their general headquarters.

This is a behavioral phenomenon, just as the provocation of aggression by a display of weakness is a behavioral phenomenon.

Yes, dirty bombs can come from outside our borders.

[indthkr]

Border security bump for later...........

[Red in Blue PA]

Buy your Potassium Iodide tout suite!

[Red in Blue PA]

"The system worked"

[floriduh voter]

is anyone serprized?

[Red in Blue PA]

I’ll say it again.....Thank God for Wikileaks.

[chimera]

Don't do it. KI is a thyroid blocker. It only blocks uptake of radioiodine, the most common radioisotopic form being 131I, which has a half-life of eight days. That means only releases from an operating reactor core or very freshly-removed fuel from a reactor core would have a significant source term for 131I. This is almost impossibly unlikely as a significant component of a RRD (”Dirty Bomb”). The most likely source term for a RRD would derive from perhaps a barrel of mixed waste that you might get from a hospital or low-level waste disposal operation. While radioiodine is used in some tyroid uptake studies and scans, the quantities are very small, especially those that end up in the waste stream. More likely are things like 32P and tritium, and KI won't help or that.

[Red in Blue PA]

Thank God for the gibmint....I would have never thought of these:

If you are outside and close to the incident

•Cover your nose and mouth with a cloth to reduce the risk of breathing in radioactive dust or smoke.
•Don’t touch objects thrown off by an explosion—they might be radioactive.

http://www.bt.cdc.gov/radiation/dirtybombs.asp

BTW, you are spot on:

http://thyroid.about.com/library/weekly/aa061402a.htm

[AmericanInTokyo]

When.

Not If.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Well, unless both Obama and Biden both are impeached (or otherwise) and have no chance to swear in a successor to block Boehner, then over the next two years, that possibility is ZERO. Obama would never do it. As a Muslim he could never do it.

[daniel1212]

It is good there are such knowledgeable posters on FR (seriously).

[Raven6]

Yes, the material itself and the tritium triggers do require replacement - tritium more often than fissle material... But their are plenty of former Soviet scientists out there with the skillset to do so for the amount of money that the terrorists are willing to pay. Think about it... You go from being a fairly well fed skilled technician/laborer to an unemployed hungry person and someone says "We will pay you $25,000 American if you will do this for us no questions asked." Not only "not impossible", but instead, "very possible."

Raven6