Stay Back But Don't Worry: Halliburton Finally Stumbles on the Radioactive Rod It Lost In the Desert

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Stay Back But Don't Worry: Halliburton Finally Stumbles on the Radioactive Rod It Somehow Lost In the Desert

by Abby Zimet



Good news, nation: After an almost-month-long search by the National Guard, local police and health officials, an oilfield worker found a radioactive rod that the ever-reliable Hallliburton had lost on a 130-mile trip between fracking sites in the Texas desert. The worker found the seven-inch rod, which contains americium-241/beryllium - a potential ingredient in a dirty bomb and termed a "category 3" source of radiation by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) - lying along the highway near Pecos. The FBI determined that there was "no criminal activity" involved with the loss. We feel so much better.

“Apparently we take our nuclear waste, throw it in the back of a pick-up truck and drive around until the wind blows it away or it falls off on the side of the road...We don't need terrorism - we have Halliburton." - Gordon Duff, senior editor of Veterans Today

http://www.commondreams.org/further/2012/10/09-2

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1. AMERICIUM + BERYLLIUM

This neutron source is used to check soil density. This should have been locked inside a shielded container about the size of a small dog house. I hope the NRC who reviews and licenses these people do something and lets the public KNOW.
I spent 34 years working for University of California at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory and I had to check several of these Am + Be radioactive source to see if they were leaking. I also helped locate an Ir191 source in LA.

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2. It's sure some major FLUB UP...and one does wonder what "ELSE" falls off trucks

all over the USA...