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More on Revigator
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- Subject: More on Revigator
- From: Kevin Rolfe <kdrolfe@sandia.gov>
- Date: 11 Jun 1997 16:59:02 -0600
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About that Revigator:
Last year the National Atomic Museum at KAFB acquired one of these
former health wonders and quite an in-depth study of it was performed.
Our Revigator has removable contamination on the interior. In fact
some of the ore has flaked off and is now laying on the bottom. In
short it was determined, by a couple of different methods, that it
contained approx. 28uci of U-238, the max exposure rate was 9.0 mR/hr
inside the Revigator using a RO-3C open window. The Revigator was
also placed inside a 55 gal. drum with an E-PERM. This was done to
measure the Radon build up using the known volume of the drum to
calculate the concentration of Radium.
As I said this is a very short summary. The study was actually done
by Mike Enghauser, and if anyone currently knows how to reach him
please let me know by private e-mail.
The Revigator will soon be on display at the museum once we take care
of the loose contamination on the inside.
""Any expressed opinions are my own fault and not that of my
employer.""
Kevin Rolfe RCT
SNL/NM
kdrolfe@sandia.gov