Mexico Issues Alert Over Stolen Deadly Radioactive Material

[tay]

Mexico issued an alert late Wednesday for several of its states after potentially deadly radioactive material was stolen from a truck this week. Mexico’s interior ministry said iridium-192 had been stolen from a truck in the southern state of Tabasco.


"This source could cause permanent injuries to the person who handles it or who has been in contact with it for a brief time (minutes or hours)," the ministry statement said, according to Agence France-Presse. "Being close to this quantity of unprotected radioactive material for hours or days could be fatal."


The alert was issued for Tabasco and the nearby states of Campeche, Chiapas, Oaxaca and Veracruz, as well as the federal police, army and navy. Civilians were warned to avoid contact with suspicious materials or objects.


This is not the first incident of radioactive material being stolen in Mexico. In 2014, another load of iridium-192 was abandoned in a stolen pickup truck in a Mexico City suburb. In 2013, a group of thieves were hospitalized after they had been exposed to unshielded cobalt-60.


The highly radioactive material was stolen near Mexico City, causing the International Atomic Energy Agency and the United States to raise an alert till the highly radioactive material was found.




Mexico Issues Alert In 5 States Over Stolen Radioactive Material Iridium-192

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Radioactivity isn't the only problem here. Most radioactive materials are also incredible chemical poisons. A nuclear physicist once commented that if you held a chunk of weapons-grade plutonium in your hand, the plutonium you absorbed through your skin would get you long before the radiation did. I wonder if the thieves know that.

 

[B00Mer]

meh, it will show up in Los Angeles or New York City... maybe Washington DC..

 

[petros]

Wrong stuff for that.

 

[MHz]

This same headline was in the not too distant past, the 'thieves' took about 30 mins to turn themselves in at the nearest medical center and the Police were pretty much waiting for them.

meh, it will show up in Los Angeles or New York City... maybe Washington DC..

. . . where it would go un-noticed for about 10 years.

 

[B00Mer]

Wrong stuff for that.

Too bad the 3 cities I mentioned are primarily Liberal..

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Wrong stuff for that.

Yeah, well, ignorance, y'know?

Too bad the 3 cities I mentioned are primarily Liberal..

And hatred so deep he'd welcome an attack.

So, basically a teabagger.

 

[MHz]

Liberal . . . and about to be buried by a km of solid ice. Oh the horror of it all.

 

[B00Mer]

Yeah, well, ignorance, y'know?

I'll say...

"...only nine reactor produced isotopes stand out as being suitable for radiological terror: americium-241, californium-252, caesium-137, cobalt-60, iridium-192, plutonium-238, polonium-210, radium-226 and strontium-90..."

Dirty bomb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Maybe you should stick to pretending to be a lawyer... so something..

And hatred so deep he'd welcome an attack.

So, basically a teabagger.

You live in DC right..

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

I'll say...

"...only nine reactor produced isotopes stand out as being suitable for radiological terror: americium-241, californium-252, caesium-137, cobalt-60, iridium-192, plutonium-238, polonium-210, radium-226 and strontium-90..."

Dirty bomb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Maybe you should stick to pretending to be a lawyer... so something..

Doesn't know the difference between a dirty bomb and a nuke, check.

 

[B00Mer]

Doesn't know the difference between a dirty bomb and a nuke, check.

Where did I say nuke ya stupid injun. Photo clearly says; "Dirty Bomb."

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Where did I say nuke ya stupid injun. Photo clearly says; "Dirty Bomb."

Poor Boomster. Racial insults are his first, last, and only resort.

Well, when you're stupid, you gotta go with the old standbys.

Yep, saw it before you edited it, Boomster. Now I want you to lie and say it never happened.

 

[B00Mer]

Poor Boomster. Racial insults are his first, last, and only resort.

Whaaat, U Mad..

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Whaaat, U Mad..

Hardly. I've been dealing with racist morons for over half a century. Not a big thing.

So, why'd you delete it, Boomster?

 

[B00Mer]

Hardly. I've been dealing with racist morons for over half a century. Not a big thing.

So, why'd you delete it, Boomster?

You're some friggin Lawyer aren't you?? Making baseless claims without any supporting evidence.

Keep trying to stir the pot T. You're good at that... trolling..

 

[SLM]

Hey! How about everybody just get back to discussing the OP instead of other things, namely each other.

 

[Ludlow]

I mostly remember quotes from movies. I remember the movie "Powder" years ago. Good movie. The quote I remember from the movie was attributed to Albert Einstein. "It is appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity". I'm not a fan of all this nuclear s***. Especially in the hands of the thoughtless and careless.