Navy use of uuCi reply

["Brian Rees" <brees@lanl.gov>]

My first response was to say that sound-powered phone use with discussion 
of contamination usually occurred while wearing airline respirators (on 
submarines), further complicating understanding.  But.... I can also 
remember reports of xx million uuCi/100 cm2, so that doesn't hold much 
water does it?  Like many other things Navy, it's hard to change old 
habit/traditions, and hearing that capacitors were refered to as uuF 
instead of pF reinforces that in my mind. Standardized reporting was more 
important than technical correctness,( especially at >400').

By the way, "close" can sound like "blow", not a good thing on a submarine.

Ex Navy nukes should also check out   
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bbusby/navy.htm

Brian Rees
brees@lanl.gov