Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] nuclear psub?

[Coalbunny <coalbunny@vcn.com>]

It's all really low level.  I had the geiger counter maxed out in
calibration.  What was relatively low-grade ore from Gateway, Colorado
would "red-lin" the meter.  Under normal calibration the same ore would
give .02 mr/hr.
Carl


Steven Mills wrote:
> 
> From: 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.
> 
> Crikey ! You're not suggesting a human thermopile are you, Carl?
> I guess that would give a whole new meaning to a group hug.
> ( sorry, that was in bad taste ).
> 
> Working in a hospital was one of my summer jobs while in
> college. I often delivered xrays to doctors and filed  x-ray photos
> in charts. It hadn't occurred to me that I could be carrying
> residual radioactive matter.
> 
> sheesh, Steve

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