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Published online 5 May 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040503-3
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Dirty bomb dust proves deadly
Mortality estimates have ignored results of inhaling fallout.
Abomb spiked with radioactive material could be more lethal than previously thought, according to physicists who have analysed the consequences of a 1987 accident in Goiâna, Brazil.
Estimates made by government officials and scientists could be off by an order of magnitude, Peter Zimmerman of King's College London told attendees of the American Physical Society's annual meeting in Denver, Colorado, on 3 May.
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