Fox alert, around 11:10 AM--you may have heard this mentioned yesterday, some ship registered radioactive on a Coast Guard inspection. A special nuclear team, forget the acronym, is also boarding with the SEALS. The ship is Liberian-registered and about eight miles offshore. Could be radiocative from a previous cargo of some sort, but on the other hand. . .

-- Anonymous, September 12, 2002

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I think I'd rather they were further out to sea...

-- Anonymous, September 12, 2002

This is NOT good.

-- Anonymous, September 12, 2002

Officials: Radiation From Nature

The Associated Press

Friday, September 13, 2002; 1:15 PM

NEWARK, N.J. –– Radiation detected in a U.S.-bound freighter's cargo containers poses no threat to the public, the crew or inspectors, the FBI said Friday.

Officials had feared the U.S.-bound freighter M/V Palermo Senator might have been carrying material for a nuclear weapon. It was ordered back to sea Tuesday and subjected to a series of tests, including by weapons experts from the Pentagon's special operation troops on Thursday.

It now appears the radiation is coming from clay tiles among its cargo, a defense official said Friday.

As a precaution, Energy Department inspectors continued to test the 655 containers aboard the Liberian-flagged ship, which remained moored off the coast of New Jersey on Friday.

"They don't believe that it poses any concern to the crew, the public at large or agents conducting the tests," said Sandra Carroll, an FBI spokeswoman in Newark.

© 2002 The Associated Press

-- Anonymous, September 13, 2002

Old Git,

I had read articles that said the radiation picked up was from gamma and neutron emissions.

By chance of fate, last night hubby called. I asked him what could produce neutron emissions. (Many things can produce the gamma emissions such as the clay ...) Hubby said that he knew of only ONE thing that would produce neutron emissions. I'll let you ponder that one.

His comments to me were to keep track of the ship. If it is allowed to set sail last night or today that nothing indeed was found. If they keep the ship and continue their searching for an undetermined amount of time that there is something serious going on. The official word will always be nothing to see here, move along.

So, if you really are wanting to know what is on that ship, watch what is happening to that ship. Watch for it to continue on with its voyage. The longer it is kept, the more serious the situation is.

-- Anonymous, September 13, 2002

How do we track a ship?

-- Anonymous, September 13, 2002

helen,

That is the million dollar question. If we don't have someone near the coast, it will be almost impossible to track the boat. On freepers I believe, it had a link to where the boat had been and where it was supposed to go. I guess that if we watched it, we could determine when it got to the next place on the list. Somehow, if it were my boat, I'd be turning around and saying screw you, figure out some other way of getting these goods there. But alas, money talks. It was supposed to go to VA next then on to GA. Somehow, I don't think the .gov is going to let that boat pull into Norfolk. I'm not to sure about Savannah either. I do know that these were the two next destinations.

Apparently, someone on freepers lives close enough to where the boat is off shore that they are trying to see if they can notice when the feds and .mils and the likes come back. I wouldn't put my money on it, because they could always land somewhere else.

apoc

-- Anonymous, September 13, 2002