[ RadSafe ] RE: Who is using Radiation Producing Machines?: KI

[Flanigan, Floyd]

Well ... I ran a little test yesterday. I took a 50 pound bag of Ice
Melt brand ice melting compound which contains Potassium Chloride,
through a Gamma 60 portal monitor just for fun. It lit up every detector
like a Christmas tree. Now ... if 50 pounds of the stuff won't pass a
Gamma 60 set @ 45nCi ... what kind of background dose rate could be
expected in the vicinity of a 20,000 ton pile of the stuff?

Floyd W. Flanigan B.S.Nuc.H.P.
Sr. H.P. Analyst 
Prairie Island

-----Original Message-----
From: Pete_Bailey at fpl.com [mailto:Pete_Bailey at fpl.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 10:11 AM
To: radsafe at radlab.nl
Cc: Flanigan, Floyd
Subject: re: Who is using Radiation Producing Machines?: KI


>  Machines aside, is anyone handling the stock-piles of
> Potassium Chloride for ice remediation by State DOTs?


ummm, why,,,do ya need more ?

Florida has lots of KI, not too much ice on the road  :-)