For this week’s post we were to chose a specific topic to right about. Whereas CBRN is a great topic to talk about in its whole. I have decided to talk about the Hazards of radiological events. Coming into any type of attack that has happened throughout history. From the Agent Orange to the attacks coming from Anthrax. There are many hazards that came from this. But when it comes to just radiological event hazards its sometime more interesting than that. There are many radiological materials that can be used to cause damage to many people in the world.
Are lesson this week uses the example of Jose Padilla who showed up at the Chicago airport in 2002 and allegedly had plans to carry out an attack using a dirty bomb. What exactly is a dirty bomb? Well it is also known as Radiological Dispersal Device. Which is a “device that may spray or otherwise disseminate radioactive debris.” (Lesson Readings) Having a radiological attack is very serious because many people could fall ill and die from attacks that come from radioactive materials.
If a radiological attack where to happen it could cause many problems from getting sick to deformities. If an attack was carried about and was on a large enough scale it could even wipe out a population. But with that being said if a radiological attack was to happen there would also be radiation from that attack that could stay around for a long time.
When we think of radiological events happening many bring up “Chernobyl” when it exploded and burned. During that many individuals were exposed to a combined field of neutron, gamma, and strong beta radiations. “(REATC, ch 1 pg 11) Even though this was nuclear accident radiation existed after that accident. So you can say there are many hazards that come from radiological events. Just by looking at this accident alone someone being exposed to many different radiation agents. If you where in an accident like this trying to get better and accepting transplants may not have worked because many host stem cells that where in the bone marrow were still there from the accidents radiation that was entered into the blood stream of the individual.
There are many hazards and many different attacks that could happen from Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear attacks. Radiation being entered into your blood stream could kill you or just make you ill. This could cause you to suffer for a very long time.
Radiological Events and Their Consequences By: Charles Woodruff Jr. http://www.cs.amedd.army.mil/borden/filedownloadpublic.aspx?docid=45c8dcd5-8221-42b4-9dcc-e2ff0a5a4d9f
US Department of Health and Human Services. 2012. RRD.
http://www.remm.nlm.gov/rdd.htm.
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