Re[4]: smoke detector overkill

[bkolb@arinc.com]

>There are two catalog sales companies called Seventh Generation and Real
>Goods that sell EcoFeelGood products.  Their catalogs have always
>contained lines of compact flourescent light bulbs that contained no
>radioactive starter*, but i really got incensed when they started carrying
>a line of contain non-radiation smoke detectors which work off turbidity.

OK where Do I find a radioactive starter?  None that I've ever checked
showed anything more than you'd expect from potassium in the glass
(including some European manufacturers).  Kathren mentions these in his
book but doesn't indicate if such use is dated.

bkolb@arinc.com