Ik weet niet of iemand het in het nieuws heeft gezien, maar ik in ieder geval niet. Ik zag het zonet op RSOE Alertmap.
Waar get het over?
Nou, in Polen is er op 06-03-2015 een diefstal geweest. Er zijn daar maar liefst 22 containers met CO-60 (Cobalt-60) gestolen uit een opslag.
HAZMAT in Poland on Friday, 20 March, 2015 at 06:29 (06:29 AM) UTC.
Description:
On the 6th of March 2015 total of 22 containers with Co-60 category 4 and 5 (activity between 40 MBq and 500 MBq on 2015-03-06) radioactive sources were stolen from a storehouse in Poznan. Aggregated activity of the stolen sources equals about 7 GBq. An investigation to determine the course of events and the current location of stolen sources is carried out by the police."
Cobalt-60 wordt voor veel dingen gebruik, van medische doeleinden tot dat lichtgevende goedje op de aanwijzer van je horloge. Maar er is ook nog een andere toepassing je kan er een bom mee maken, voor zover ik weet heeft nog niemand dat ooit gedaan, maar er zijn al wel onderzoeken naar gedaan.
Wikipedia: cobalt bomb
"A cobalt bomb is a theoretical type of "salted bomb": a nuclear weapon designed to produce enhanced amounts of radioactive fallout, intended to contaminate a large area with radioactive material. The concept of a cobalt bomb was originally described in a radio program by physicist Leó Szilárd on February 26, 1950.[1] He suggested that an arsenal of cobalt bombs would be capable of destroying all human life on Earth, while his intent was not to propose that such a weapon be built, but to show that nuclear weapon technology would soon reach the point where it could end human life on Earth, a doomsday device.[2][3] Such "salted" weapons were requested by the U.S. Air Force and seriously investigated, but not deployed. In the 1964 edition of the DOD/AEC book The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, a new section titled Radiological warfare clarified the "Doomsday device" issue."
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Waar get het over?
Nou, in Polen is er op 06-03-2015 een diefstal geweest. Er zijn daar maar liefst 22 containers met CO-60 (Cobalt-60) gestolen uit een opslag.
HAZMAT in Poland on Friday, 20 March, 2015 at 06:29 (06:29 AM) UTC.
Description:
On the 6th of March 2015 total of 22 containers with Co-60 category 4 and 5 (activity between 40 MBq and 500 MBq on 2015-03-06) radioactive sources were stolen from a storehouse in Poznan. Aggregated activity of the stolen sources equals about 7 GBq. An investigation to determine the course of events and the current location of stolen sources is carried out by the police."
Cobalt-60 wordt voor veel dingen gebruik, van medische doeleinden tot dat lichtgevende goedje op de aanwijzer van je horloge. Maar er is ook nog een andere toepassing je kan er een bom mee maken, voor zover ik weet heeft nog niemand dat ooit gedaan, maar er zijn al wel onderzoeken naar gedaan.
Wikipedia: cobalt bomb
"A cobalt bomb is a theoretical type of "salted bomb": a nuclear weapon designed to produce enhanced amounts of radioactive fallout, intended to contaminate a large area with radioactive material. The concept of a cobalt bomb was originally described in a radio program by physicist Leó Szilárd on February 26, 1950.[1] He suggested that an arsenal of cobalt bombs would be capable of destroying all human life on Earth, while his intent was not to propose that such a weapon be built, but to show that nuclear weapon technology would soon reach the point where it could end human life on Earth, a doomsday device.[2][3] Such "salted" weapons were requested by the U.S. Air Force and seriously investigated, but not deployed. In the 1964 edition of the DOD/AEC book The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, a new section titled Radiological warfare clarified the "Doomsday device" issue."
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http://ift.tt/1I4l39r
Diefstal van Cobalt-60
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