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Re: Banana Equivalent Dose

To: radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: Banana Equivalent Dose
From: king@reasoning.com
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 95 08:57:17 GMT
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 07 Mar 95 10:33:54 -0600. <n1417557253.67747@quickmail.llnl.gov>
Reply-To: king@reasoning.com

>>                                         - Captain Internal Dosimetry!
>> 
>>                                       Banana Equivalent Dose
>> 
>> 
>> Oh yes!  Almost forgot.  Regarding K-40, go into your local grocery store, buy
>> some salt-substitute (there are two common brands, and the one in the white
>> and orange labeled container works best) spread some out on a table and check
>> it out with a GM survey instrument.  There it is folks, deadly radioactivity
>> in your grocery store!  
>> 
>> 

Why would one brand work better than another?  KCl is KCl.

Is there noticable variation in the isotope ratios of various sources of KCl?

-dk

References:
- Banana Equivalent Dose
  - From: "GARY MANSFIELD" <GARY.MANSFIELD.HC#u#HS#u#DIV@quickmail.llnl.gov>

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