Sentences with phrase «practical dirty bomb»

A practical dirty bomb's main effects would be from fear, not radiation, with both the Department of Homeland Security and the American Institute of Physics predicting few deaths from cancer or radiation poisoning, even in densely populated areas.

Writing in MIT's Technology Review, Richard Muller, a senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, calculated the radiation exposure — measured in a unit known as the rem — that city residents would receive from a practical dirty bomb.