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Re: Rad Sources for Workshops
I'm trying to interpret the regulations, and you have to bring up common sense.
Doesn't compute!
Seriously, for whatever reasons, the public has chosen to control licensed
radioactive material to a much greater extent than any other potential hazard
I'm aware of, and I doubt that anyone "proving" that LNT is not valid will make
any difference..
A responsible HP may try to change this, but as long as these regulations are in
effect, we have to promote compliance.
The opinions expressed are strictly mine.
It's not about dose, it's about trust.
Curies forever.
Bill Lipton
liptonw@dteenergy.com
Jim Hoerner wrote:
> >From: BLHamrick@AOL.COM
>
> >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.
>
> http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf57.htm
> Even swallowing the radioactive material from a smoke detector would not
> lead to significant internal absorption of Am-241, since the dioxide is
> insoluble. It will pass through the digestive tract, without delivering a
> significant radiation dose. (Americium-241 is however a potentially
> dangerous isotope if it is taken into the body in soluble form. It decays by
> both alpha activity and gamma emissions and it would concentrate in the
> skeleton.)
>
> Regards,
> Jim
>
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