lundi 24 août 2020, par do (Date de rédaction antérieure : 24 août 2020).
Concernant Yasser Arafat, voici la conclusion du labo suisse qui a procédé aux analyses d’échantillons. NB : Y.A. avait pour pseudo Mr. Louvet.
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Conclusions
All the belongings of Mr Louvet were first measured with surface contamination monitors and HPGe
gamma spectrometry. We observed no significant activities.
We then evaluated a potential contamination by a lethal quantity of polonium-210 (210
Po). Because
of the long time between the death (2004) and the present measurements(2012), the potential
quantity of
210
Po in Mr Louvet’s belonging had decreased bya factor of one million (20 radioactive
half-lives). We considered the values of the literature and ran our own biokinetic and urinary
excretion model. We concluded that, even in case of a poisoning similar to the Litvinenko case, only
traces of the order of few mBq (one decay every 1,000 seconds) were expected to be found in year
2012.
We therefore chose to conduct 210
Po measurements on samples that had been manifestly worn by Mr
Louvet and where stains of residual biological liquids could be suspected by direct eye observation.
Some of these samples show
210
Po activities that are clearly above the values measured on other
samples that had either not been worn or that were not containing visible suspect stains.
This observation alone is however not sufficient to draw a final conclusion because out of the 10
measurements performed on local samples totally unrelated with Mr Louvet’s belonging, two show
210
Po activities above the value of2 mBq/g, which can be set as a limit for background value.
To clarify the origin of the measured
210
Po, we should take into account that this nuclide is naturally
present in the environment as a decay product coming from lead-210 (
210
Pb) :
210
Po is said to be
supported by
210
Pb. Therefore, we propose to wait until the beginning of June 2012 and measure the
samples again. If we observe a significant amount of
210
Po in the samples with high activities in the
first measurements, this would show that
210
Po is supported by
210
Pb. This would therefore be a very
strong argument in favor of a natural origin of the observed
210
Po, although such a quantity would be
very uncommon. Alternatively, if we do notmeasure a significant amount of
210
Po, we should
conclude that the high activity measured the first time does not come from the
210
Pb decay and
therefore is not explainable by a known natural phenomenon.
Finally, and in addition to our alpha-spectrometric analysis, we re-analyzed the raw data of the
gamma spectrometry performed on urine samples bythe French government before Mr Louvet’s
death. We did not detect any abnormal gamma activities. In particular, we checked the area around
the energy 803 keV that is (weakly) emitted by
210
Po. We did not find any evidence of this nuclide in
the spectra.