[ RadSafe ] ~120 lb KCl in bed and/or ~ 3 lb Thoriated welding rods in seat for hormetic dose

[howard long]

3, 40lb bags of KCl are under the table in my office, 6' away.
  I am going to put them under my mattress for a hormetic dose.  
  I find, 
  at 6" the PalmRad reads 0.040 mR/hr 
   (and, right on them, it reads 0.050 mR/hr   
  vs 0.013 mR/hr on my desk),
  This would supplement ~ 0.1 rem/year, I calculate, sleeping 8 hours/d over them.
   
  My 5 lb of scrap thoriated welding rod belt reads 0.147 mRd/hr at 1 " above it.
  But It is too clumsy to wear much.
   
  2 lb 10 oz (40), packaged new rods on my office seat read 0.162 mR/hr  
  on the pillow, 1" above, where I sit average 3 hours/day, 300 d/year 
  So ~ 0.2 rem/year (~1,000 hours in that chair) would also be 
     an amount similar to the Taiwan apt or NSW exposure,
  much less than residents of Ramsar, Iran (see online article in search), .
   
  Howard Long 
   
  "Flanigan, Floyd" <Floyd.Flanigan at nmcco.com> wrote:
  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 :-)

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