[FedCom] Smoke & Mirrors Game!!!

Sat, 14 Sep 2002 22:01:58 -0700

Quite a bit of radioactive articles go through the mail. [Medical,
photographic, and even natural radiation such as Mexican pottery and good
old Fiestaware. Do a search on nuclear on Ebay and you will see many items
being traded.]  Having fiddled with a geiger counter, I suspect the shield
nuclear material has high gamma radiation but very low beta radiation since
only the highest energy particles will escape the shielding. On the surface,
this sounds easy to detect, but often real life is more complicated.
[Typical geiger counters detect gamma and gamma+beta. If you had a gamma
only probe and a gamma+beta probe getting the same reading, I would suspect
shielded nuclear material.]

> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 2:24 PM
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> Subject: [FedCom] Smoke & Mirrors Game!!!
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> Did anyone watch the ABC news special last evening where ABC news was able
> to smuggle some radioactive material that what expects told them would
> simulate reading of shielded "dirty material" without detection by US
> Customs in the NY port area.
>