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Many hospitals have enough radioactive isotopes to create some really nasty dirty bombs - yet you never see the same level of discussion around physical securit
by EricE 4y ago
Many hospitals have enough radioactive isotopes to create some really nasty dirty bombs - yet you never see the same level of discussion around physical security for them; perhaps because most people don't realize just how frequently radioactive isotopes are used for things other than nuclear power?
The constant demonization of nuclear power has lead to this pathological loathing that is really shooting us all in the foot.
- loopback_device 4y agoHospitals don't usually cause a radioactive disaster if bombed into oblivion – and are also not valid military targets as per Geneva Conventions. Radioactive isotopes used in medicine have significantly shorter half-lives than the isotopes found in fuel rods. I'm sure you can get something nasty done with them if you wanted to, and there are also enough incidents in that field, but it's not really comparable?
- hammyhavoc 4y agoThe Geneva Convention seems to have been thrown out of the window in recent conflicts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian%E2%80%93Syrian_hospital_bombing_campaign https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian%E2%80%93Syrian_hospita...