Re: Scint Counting

["Ron L. Kathren" <rkathren@beta.tricity.wsu.edu>]

Very curious situation you describe.  Would like to discuss this with you 
if you will be at HPS meeting in SF.  If so, please look me up @ Hilton.

Ron Kathren

On Thu, 16 Jun 1994, Dale E. Boyce wrote:

> Contaminated sources can be a "source" of stress:)  Shortly after
> receiving a 24,000 Curie Co-60 irradiator a few years ago, a leak
> test came up hot.  A spectrum taken with the LSC indicated P-32
> contamination.  We of course confirmed that there were no Co-60
> gammas with a gamma spectroscopy system.  We still have an Am-241
> source that repeatedly shows H-3 contamination.  The owner of the
> source does not use tritium, so we have no idea from where the
> contamination came.
>