Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] nuclear psub?

[Coalbunny <coalbunny@vcn.com>]

If you want radioactivity, go to a hospital and round up some of the
folks going through radiation therapy.  Everything they touch gets a
trace or radioactivity.  When I was a kis I found the most radioactive
place in the hospital my granny worked at was the bathrooms.
Carl


Steven Mills wrote:
> 
> From: Warrend Greenway <dub@linuxmail.org>
> > I read about a kid in the news, years ago, who made a thermopile type
> "reactor" (not actually a reactor) from >fire alarms...............
> 
> I heard about this, too. I believe the isotope in those firealarms is
> Americium.
> ( I could be wrong ). They're supposed to have very short half-lives, but
> still
> dangerous to handle.
> 
> I thought about putting one from those firealarms into a homemade
> cloudchamber.
> 
> --Steve

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