The RadSecure program aims to remove dangerous substances from medical facilities and other industries.
Our planet is home to many radioactive substances—not just in its geologic innards or its weapons caches but also in its hospitals, at its industrial sites and in its food processing plants. In Colorado, for instance, 27 buildings house scary-sounding elements such as cesium 137, cobalt 60, americium 241 and iridium 192.
Since Grothe got the call, he has been to two DOE sites—the Y-12 National Security Complex and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, both in Tennessee—to learn more about what the radioactive material is, why it is both handy and hazardous, how to protect humans and the material, what protection is already in place and what resources could help should the unthinkable occur.
Door number one is experts’ preferred option. After all, if a nonradiological tool can do the same job as a radioactive one, at a reasonable price, few reasons exist to continue with the riskier choice. Why use a switchblade to spread jam on toast when you can use a butter knife? But police need to know what to do should the alarm sound. It is important, Adams says, “that they treat it like a national security kind of incident as opposed to maybe the theft of a bicycle.”
Qualitatively, concern has typically turned its eye toward extremist groups from outside the U.S. But the current American environment may—or maybe should—also slew the gaze inward. At least, that is the argument in a recent Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists article by analysts at the Henry L. Stimson Center, a policy research nonprofit, which contends that the U.S. should worry about domestic extremists slipping cesium up their sleeves.
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