Re: radiation propeller???

[mikeg@SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Michael P. Grissom)]

Stacking the messages here a bit, the "trefoil" is the standard radiation
symbol (usually yellow and magenta) that is required by the US NRC and
the US DOE.  Propeller is the colloquial term for it.

>Reply to:   RE>radiation propeller???
>"Radiation propeller" refers to the radiation symbol which desigantes that a
>radiation hazard exists.  "Nicht wahr"  (isn't it true)?
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>Date: 5/5/95 12:40 PM
>To: Sharyn Baker
>From: radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
>> I haven't varified it anyplace, but I'm told that the
>> radiation propeller was invented here.  We were once cited
>> by the NRC in the pre-agreement state days for having a non-conforming
>> dimensions on some of our props...
>
>What, pray tell, is a radiation propeller????
>
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