Re: RADSAFE digest 1086 -Reply

[Craig D Brown <CBROWN@envc.sandia.gov>]

Since, to this day, I still have a hard time asking someone
to "close" something instead of "shut," (in the plant we
weren't allowed to order a valve "closed," but I can't
remember what word it was supposed to sound like) uuCi vs
pCi isn't that far out there.  Now, all of us ex-nukes should
probably shut up before we drive everybody else nuts (if we
haven't already).

Craig D. Brown
cbrown@envc.sandia.gov

>>> Gerald  Feldman <gfeldman@uci.edu> 09/26/96
12:45pm >>>
At 11:03 AM 9/26/96 -0500, you wrote:
>
>While I was working in the naval nuclear program, the
reason given that
>uuCi is used versus pCi was that uCi and pCi sound alike
over a sound
>powered phone.  Therefore the use of micro-micro Ci would
be clearer in
>communications.
>
>Mike Baker ... baker@groves.neep.wisc.edu
>
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Following that line of reasoning, I would suppose that one
would have to use
kilo-micro-curie to avoid confusing millicurie with microcurie. 
I don't
know how poor these sound powered phones are, but the
"pi" in pico is
pronounced  as the word  "pea", not "pie" {;-) .

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