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Re: Radium Compasses



Ra-226 in old compass containing radioactive paint up to 200 kBq

after Ra-226  also was used H-3, up 300 MBq, Pm-147 up 6 MBq



Source Code of Practices IAEA Safety Repor Document

Regulatory Control of Consumer Products Containing Radioactive Substances,

1990



Jose Julio Rozental

joseroze@netvision.net.il

Israel









----- Original Message -----

From: High Plains Drifter <magna1@jps.net>

To: Andrew Buchan <Andrew.Buchan@ehs.ucsb.edu>;

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Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 3:40 AM

Subject: Re: Radium Compasses





Pocket type or large (12" dia) ship/aircraft type?  The pocket ones read

about 10 mrem on contact with the face.





H. Dean Chaney, CHP

URS Corp. Sacramento, CA

(916) 679-2086



"In science there is only physics; everything else is stamp collecting."

                                      --Ernest Rutherford



----- Original Message -----

From: "Andrew Buchan" <Andrew.Buchan@ehs.ucsb.edu>

To: <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 2:41 PM

Subject: Radium Compasses





> Anyone have any idea of the activity of some of the old radium

> compasses from the Air Force?

>

> regards

> Andrew

>

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