Re: NY worlds fair Irradiated dime

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

I believe it was the 1964-65 World's Fair.



I believe, somewhere, I still have that souvenir.



If my memory serves me correctly, it was irradiated with neutrons.



Cheers,



RIchard



At 08:05 AM 12/30/2002 -0800, M Nivas wrote:

>Greetings to all,

>

>When I attended the New York World's Fair in 1964

>(1963?) I went to the American pavilion. They were

>irradiating Dimes (your own) and placing them in a

>blue disk with electrons orbiting the dime. As a kid

>we went into our closets to see if the dimes glowed.

>(they did not)

>

>The purpose was to show that irradiating a dime was

>safe.

>

>First, has anyone attended the fair and has a

>souvenir?

>

>And second, does anyone know what they irradiated the

>dime with?

>

>Tom Savin

>

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