re: irradiated mail

["Richard L. Hess" <lists@richardhess.com>]

At 05:00 PM 8/28/2002 -0500, Jim Hardeman wrote:

>Based on what I saw about the "irradiation machines", I think you're 

>probably looking at electron beams rather than gamma or X-rays. I would 

>suspect the reaction of electrons w/ the organic sulfides would be similar 

>to that of alphas.



Jim,



A test was run for Media Sciences on CD-Rs by Titan Scan Technologies of 

"electron beam radiation of the type used to sterilize U.S. mail does not 

impair media interchange. "



Details at http://www.mscience.com/faq29.html



I'm sorry, I can't provide any additional information about dose, etc., as 

I don't know.



Cheers,



Richard



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