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Shaffer
02-11-03, 08:36 AM
CAMP LEJEUNE - Detectors inside what look like orange plastic traffic barriers are scanning vehicles passing near this sprawling Marine Corps base for a radioactive "dirty bomb."

The approaches to Camp Lejeune, the largest Marine base in the Eastern United States, and three other domestic military bases are testing grounds for technology to locate a potential terrorist weapon.

Unlike a nuclear weapon, which unleashes tremendous power and heat when it detonates, a dirty bomb is a conventional explosive with radioactive material wrapped around it. The blast is intended to spread radioactivity, and fear, over a wide area.

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