Re[2]: Household radioactive materials?

["Rima, Steven D" <SDRIMA@saix367.sandia.gov>]

     Don't forget "No Salt" or other similar salt substitutes (Potassium 
     chloride instead of sodium chloride). You can get several hundred 
     counts per minute from a canister of this using a pancake G-M 
     instrument.
     
     Steve Rima, CHP
     sdrima@sandia.gov


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Subject: Re: Household radioactive materials?
Author:  radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu at CCSMTP
Date:    10/26/95 2:22 PM


>I am going to be giving a presentation next week on radioactive materials 
>in the household.  Can people please give some examples of what can be found?
     
Depends on the household.  
     
Mostly, I'd think of tritium/promethium watches, compasses and "procured" 
airplane nav devices, lantern mantles (thorium impregnated), and americium 
smoke detectors.
     
This is, actually, the list of exempt sources in the Colorado Regulations.
     
Then there's radon and progeny in the basement, and all the fallout on the 
tobacco leaves in cigarettes.  And the infamous K-40 in bananas.
     
Hope this helps.
     
John
     
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