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[AnaLog Services, Inc.]

Texas has done it for decades as well.  It is the well logging (wireline)
business that drives that since we transport relatively high activity AmBe
and Cs sealed sources on a daily basis.  Fining the wireline industry for
placarding and other infractions paid for those survey instruments in Texas
many times over.  I was unaware they had em in Illinois, but one might also
suspect they are using them in other oil states like Oklahoma as well.

Syd H. Levine
AnaLog Services, Inc.
Phone:  (270) 276-5671
Telefax:  (270) 276-5588
E-mail:  analog at logwell.com
Web URL:  www.logwell.com


> **(Geo) Maybe not. State Patrol vehicles in Illinois have been monitoring
> for a few decades now. Maybe other STATES too? would appreciate feedback
> on this.
> My personal Vehicular Scintillator Alarming Ratemeter is a surplussed
> State of IL unit, I bough a bunch of them at auction a few years ago. They
> are 1985 vintage.
> Eberline RM-20's with 2" X 2.4" plastic scintillators ( for ruggedness). I
> use NaI(Tl)  for sensitivity. Yes I find things that I didn't know
> existed. Railroad cars with coal ( NORM), Gas and Diesel tanks in the
> ground ( NORM), but also rouge X-Ray machines and poorly stored medical
> supplies.