Re: cpm conversion to mrem/hr -Reply

[DAVID HARRISON <DHARRISON@doe.lanl.gov>]

Dear Franz,

I didn't write the article, chump.  By the amount of your verbose and
sometime entertaining responses, I would say that you spend 75% of
your time in front of the screen trying to come off as a
pseudo-intellectual, and not actually engaging in the realm of Health
Physics.  By the way, I'm not a Fed, but a contractor.  Anymore
worthless things to say, Franz?  Now I just press delete whenever I see
Schoenhofer.  Ah, that felt great.

>>> <schoenho@via.at> 08/28/96 12:46pm >>>
At 13:49 28.08.1996 -0500, you wrote:
>I was looking through some x-ray diffraction reports and ran across
>some conversion figure converting cpm from a GM to mR/hr or mrem/hr.
 I
>can't remember where I saw it.  Anyone no what it is?
>
>David Harrison
>DHARRISON@DOE.LANL.GOV
>==========================================================================

I cannot believe that you saw anything like this, because the conversion
is dependent on your GM, on the energy of the radiation and probably a
couple of other conditions. In fact calibration would have to be done
individually. 

Is this the expertise which DOE employees have?

Anybody who wants to accuse me of the typical European arrogancy is
requested to refrain from it. I had so many positive responses on my
sometimes sarcastic comments to my private e-mail that I do not care for
the one or two who do not like it. 

Instead I would recommend that you Americans would do something to
rise the average scientific level of your health physics people. I know
that you have a large number of excellent experts, which are among the
best in the world and I am honoured to know some of these personally.
But this is not enough for everyday life. 

Franz Schoenhofer
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