RE: radioactive jewelry

["Neil, David M" <neildm@id.doe.gov>]

Yes, I'm sure her ears do.  DOCTOR Spock was the human pediatrician.

The Star Trek character was Mister Spock.

Dave Neil		neildm@id.doe.gov

		My dog is very obedient.  He does what he is bid.  A sign
said "Wet Paint", And that's just what he did.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Frank R. Borger_(FRB) [SMTP:frb@gammex.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, August 01, 2000 3:59 PM
> To:	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	Re: radioactive jewelry
> 
> Ruth,
> 
> And do your ears look like Dr Spock's?  (grin)
> 
> 
> 
> Frank R. Borger - Senior Physicist, Gammex RMI
> fborger@gammex.com phn 608-828-7289 fax 608-828-7500
> 
> How many physicists does it take to change a light bulb?
> Only one. According to Heisenberg, all you have to do
> is observe the light bulb, and you change it.
> 
> 
> >>> "ruth_weiner" <ruth_weiner@email.msn.com> August 1, 2000 14:54 >>>
> Funny you should ask.  In 1960 I had a summer job trying to make an
> "emerald
> laser." I had occasion to look at some silicate crystals at the
> Smithsonian,
> and one of the staff gave me a piece of uranium-doped quartz, from which I
> had a pair of earrings made that I wore for a number of years and through
> two pregnancies (I ultimately lost them).  The activity was undetectable
> above background.  I have never, as far as I can tell, suffered any ill
> effect.
> 
> Ruth Weiner
> ruth_weiner@msn.com 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karam, Andrew <Andrew_Karam@URMC.Rochester.edu>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
> Date: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 10:39 AM
> Subject: radioactive jewelry
> 
> 
> >Greetings, all.  I received a phone call from a local reporter doing a
> story
> >on radioactivity in antiques.  She asked me what I could tell her about
> an
> >incident in Buffalo in the 1980s in which a number of rings were found to
> >contain radioactivity, and said that apparently law suits were filed.
> She
> >also thought that the incident was written up in either Health Physics or
> >some other journal.
> >
> >I have searched Quest and the HPJ WWW page, but have been unable to find
> any
> >reference to this under "jewelry".  I'd really appreciate any help from
> >Radsafe-land on this one so I can get back to the woman to give her some
> >specifics as to the amount of activity, the probably dose, and expected
> >effects.
> >
> >Thanks -
> >
> >Andy
> >
> >PS I do not get the idea that this reporter has any particular ax to
> >grind or that she is predisposed to think this is bad or a scandal.  I
> think
> >she's just interested.
> >
> >Andrew Karam, CHP              (716) 275-1473 (voice)
> >Radiation Safety Officer          (716) 275-3781 (office)
> >University of Rochester           (716) 256-0365 (fax)
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> >
> >Andrew_Karam@URMC.Rochester.edu 
> >http://Intranet.urmc.rochester.edu/RadiationSafety 
> >
> >If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually
> >never says anything at all.  (Miguel de Unamuno, quoted in "What is
> Life?"
> >by Erwin Schrodinger)
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