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Carbon Dose?

Engineering has ask about the wording in an old protective coating (paint)
specification.   The wording is "Radiation tolerance to doses of 10^7 rads
carbon over 25 years.  We don't understand why the word "Carbon" is in the
spec.  Does anyone have any insight to this?

Tom Goff
WIPP Radiological Engineering
(505) 234-8861
(fax)  234-6027
e-mail  GoffT@WIPP.Carlsbad.NM.US
page (505) 234-8850  (pager 479)
P.O. Box 2078
Carlsbad, NM 88221
Radiological Engineering:  Anticipating Radiological Problems
             Developing Techniques to Deal with Them


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