Re: Nuclear Golf

[Warren_Church@uml.edu (Warren Church)]

An added benefit results because irradiated golf balls carry further down
the fairway!
warren_church@uml.edu
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> From: M. Jerome <smj1@npl.co.uk>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
> Subject: Nuclear Golf
> Date: Thursday, January 29, 1998 7:35 AM
> 
> This may provide a little light relief. It comes from the Reader's 
> Digest 'Strange Stories, Amazing Facts of America's Past'.
> 
> In 1950, scientists perfected...a golf ball containing radioactive 
> material. With a small Geiger counter...any duffer could find his 
> atomic golf ball, no matter how far into the rough it had disappeared. 
> (The investment would pay for itself in retrieved balls)...
> 
> I suppose this would make for interesting dose calculations when you 
> actually found the thing!
> 
> Simon Jerome
> E-mail:	simon.jerome@npl.co.uk
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