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Hey,
guys. This is a TV show that is intended to entertain and sell products to
the viewers. If you have an issue with the authenticity of the material,
you should write to the sponsors and say you will not buy their SUV, beer, etc.,
because they are not accurately portray the monitoring uranium
contamination. Goodness. This line of thought is as bad as the West
Wing discussion.
Get a
grip on it.
-- John
John Jacobus, MS, CHP
Area Health Physicist
Radiation
Safety Branch
National Institutes of Health
21 Wilson Drive, MSC
6780
Bethesda, MD 20892-6780
USA
Telephone:
301-496-5774
Fax: 301-496-3544
E-mail:
jjacobus@mail.nih.gov
jacobusj@ors.od.nih.gov
I had the same problems you did..also had problem
with CDV survey probe...it looked like he was surveying with the GM tube
completely shielded...Jim Nicolosi, Knoxville, TN
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 1:29 PM
Subject: Yesterday's CSI episode
(TV)
Yesterday evening's episode of CSI (Crime
Scene Investigators) on the local network channel here in Montreal, featured a
story involving uranium detection at the crime scene -- tiny flakes of paint
from a little statue which was used as the murder weapon.
I thought that a somewhat positive aspect of
the show was how the investigator's initial panic reaction became moderated.
Unfortunately it only became so as a result of the lab-tech's explaining that
it was just "trace amounts of uranium" ....as if a brick of 100% pure uranium
would kill you on the spot (or something like that -- who knows what the story
writers were thinking...).
Another minus was when the investigator
exposed a film to some more uranium paint flakes taken from the murderer's
gloves -- the film was exposed in a matter of seconds, showing bright specs of
light on the print.
All I managed to get after exposing dental
x-ray film to a 1-inch piece of high-grade uranium ore for about 8 hours, was
a diffuse silhouette of the rock :-(
Pretty entertaining show nonetheless.... one
of very few TV programs I bother watching.
Jaro
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