[ RadSafe ] " X-rays from lightning photographed "

[Bailey, Pete]

The Florida Chapter HPS had a presentation from someone that works in
the lightning test facility at KSC...

Although he may have erroneous used the term 'gamma' radiation (during the presentation) , 
there is quite a bit of evidence that a lightning bolt generates some form of
very hi energy (i.e., 8 to 10 MeV) photon radiation.

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Subject: [ RadSafe ] " X-rays from lightning photographed "

http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-12-x-rays-lightning.html 
X-rays from lightning photographed
December 14, 2010 
By Carrie Peyton Dahlberg

Using a custom-built camera the size of a refrigerator, Florida researchers
have made the world's first crude pictures of X-rays streaming from a stroke
of lightning. 

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