RE: No radioactive material on Columbia (other than smoke detectors)

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@EARTHLINK.NET>]

Follow-up to my previous post, received from my NASA source (addesses 

discrepant information):



>>There were some (nanocurie) Ca-45 used with a labeling compound on 

long bones of mice embryos.  They were classified as insignificant.  

This experiment contained about 30 of these bones.  So given the 

total number of the smoke detectors (2 sources in each detector) and 

all these bones, one could say that 50 - 55 sources?? were on the 

shuttle.  The only items that we inventoried were the smoke 

detectors.<<

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