Re: Simulation of Radioactive Contamination

[jgbarnes@ix.netcom.com (JAMES BARNES)]

You wrote: 

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>I am working on an emergency exercise involving radioactive material.  
Is there 
>a method to simulate radiaoctive contamination?
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>Thanks
>
>Kevin Roberts
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>
We have found that Potassium Chloride (Morton's "No Salt") works fairly 
well.  The K-40 can be seen with a pancake probe if it is spread fairly 
densely and evenly.  Being naturally occurring, one also escapes the 
regulatory hassles (and you can buy it at a grocery store).

Jim Barnes CHP(PR)
Rocketdyne Division, Rockwell International