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RE: News story mail irradiation -Titan
Stewart,
They
are using a linear accelerator. Radionuclides are associated with
nuclear power, which is bad karma. As long as the energy is below 9 MeV,
there will be little activation. However, it will sure darken undeveloped
film and dosimeters.
-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health
Physicist
3050 Traymore Lane
Bowie, MD
20715-2024
E-mail: jenday1@email.msn.com
(H)
Radsafe:
A timely story about the mail being shipped from Washington, DC to Titan
Corp for sterilization and the SureBeam electron beam systems the postal
service is buying.
Acccording to the article below [it could well be a
reporter's mistake] the Titan Chief Executive Gene Ray [appropriate name for a
fellow in the irradiation business] said:
"The source of the radiation is electricity,
there is no
nuclear power involved," he said. Ray
explained that the electron beam
technology works
by taking regular electricity and speeding up the
rate at which the electrons travel."
If Ray did say what he's quoted as saying, it's comforting
to know no nuclear generated electrons or nuclear generated electricity are
employed in the process. That might taint the process. Don't want any
contaminated electrons from nuclear plants out there.
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