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100	1		_aLIPPERT William
245			_aGeiger counting / _cWilliam Lippert
260			_c2008
520			_aInterpol launched Project Geiger in 2005 to counter the threats posed by criminal or terrorist use of radioactive materials. Weapons grade materials are highly protected but other radioactive materials such as cesium-137, polonium-210 and strontium-90 are used in a wide variety of contexts from hospitals to mines and are far less well secured. This article describes known cases of theft in Europe and North America, incidents in which radioactive materials were used, and the efforts being made to reduce the risk of such materials falling into terrorist hands.
650			_aRADIOACTIVE MATERIALS _xTHEFT
650			_aRADIOACTIVE MATERIALS _xTERRORISM
773			_aJane's Intelligence Review : _gVol 20 No 4, April 2008, pp.42-46
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