Re:Radionuclide in rubber products

["Mccormick, Luke I" <LUKE.Mccormick@dhs.gov>]

Brian,

Many syntretic rubbers are made from petroleum. So I would expect to see

radium or other U or Th progeny as in the oil & gas wells.

Luke McCormick

US Customs & Border Protection.



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Subject:    Radionuclide in rubber products

Author:     owner-radsafe@list.Vanderbilt.Edu

Date:       7/7/2004 11:08 AM









       I was talking to somebody about portal alarms, and they said

       they'd seen

       alarms from rubber (large rolls).  We don't have the ability to

       go back and

       gamma-spec them, does anyone know what the likely nuclide was?



       Thanks,

       Brian Rees



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