RE: Pocket Radiation Monitors

["Miller, Roy H." <ROHMILLE@SOUTHERNCO.COM>]

Sounds like the government.

You can get a really nice ED (Siemens and MGPI) for gamma and beta for

<$200/ea.

Siemens also does neutron.



> -----Original Message-----

> From:	Strickert, Rick [SMTP:rstrickert@signaturescience.com]

> Sent:	Thursday, May 30, 2002 1:13 PM

> To:	Otto G. Raabe; RADSAFE@list.vanderbilt.edu

> Subject:	RE: Pocket Radiation Monitors

> 

> Otto Raabe asked:

> 

> 	>Today's NEWS says that the 4000 U.S. Customs officers are being

> supplied

> 	>with pocket radiation detectors. Does anyone know what kind and

> model they

> 	>are?

> 

> From hints in various news releases about the U.S. Customs,  I think the

> radiation detector is probably the "Radiation Pager", made by Sensor

> Technology Engineering Inc. of Santa Barbara, California. The pocket unit

> uses a CsI detector and lists for $1500.  More information, a picture, and

> specs are at http://www.nttc.edu/ertProgram/radpager.asp

> There is also STE's "Radiation Pager-S". It uses the CsI detector and

> lists for $2200.  The Radiation Pager-S has a feature that can be used by

> HAZMAT teams and trained users to more precisely locate a hazardous

> source.  More info is at http://www.nttc.edu/ertProgram/radpagers.asp

> The Radiation Pager was probably used by New York police during the New

> Year's Eve celebrations in Times Square based on information from

> http://www.radjournal.com/articles/newyear/nuke.htm.

> Another STE radiation detector, the HRM, is sensitive to gammas and and

> also incorporates a He-3-filled proportional counter for detecting thermal

> neutrons. It lists for $5500. More info is at

> http://www.nttc.edu/ertProgram/handheld.asp.

> 

> Rick

> 

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