Re: Rad Sources for Workshops

[Dimiter Popoff <tgi@cit.bg>]

>Are you sure this is a Am-241 smoke detector?  Some of the early smoke 

>detectors used Ra-226.



 Oh yes, pretty sure. The 59.54 keV line and those below can actually be seen

in some of the demo spectra on the website (but don't look for activity

info in those, the sources were adjusted manually so the weaker

ones - 60Co, 134Cs and 137Cs - would be of similar height).



Dimiter



http://transgalactic.freeyellow.com/spectra.htm



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