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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>;
<radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>
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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