Safeguarding hospitals from 'dirty bombs'
Photo credit: NNSA/Handout | Training session given to law enforcement and hospital security personnel to help them deal with alarms about attempts to steal radiological materials for dirty bombs, at the Oak Ridge National Security Center in Tennessee.
Federal officials have been pumping millions of dollars into tighter security at hospitals in New York City and on Long Island to safeguard radioactive materials.
Major health care facilities are the focus of the effort because they use medical isotopes that could be the basic ingredients for radiological weapons known as "dirty bombs."
The security cash comes from the National Nuclear...
