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Re: Rad Sources for Workshops

To: brees@LANL.GOV, radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: Re: Rad Sources for Workshops
From: BLHamrick@AOL.COM
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 22:35:25 EDT
Reply-To: BLHamrick@AOL.COM
Sender: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

In a message dated 06/19/2002 2:51:20 PM Pacific Daylight Time, brees@LANL.GOV writes:

I don't believe it's legal to take the source out of a smoke detector -
part of the general license requirements.

Actually, domestically-produced smoke detectors are usually distributed as items exempt from regulation, thus the end user can technically do anything they want with them, but I would recommend strongly AGAINST taking them apart, as with one microcurie of activity, they contain about 167 stochastic ALIs.

Barbara

Barbara

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