Re: Mystery Radium device

[Ray Russ <rruss@stanford.edu>]

Helen Caldecott's meds dispenser?


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>Subject: Mystery Radium device
>From:    "Busby; Bruce" <bab1303@hub.doh.wa.gov> at Internet
>Date:    11/3/98  4:40 PM
>
>Hi All,
>
>We, in the Great State of Washington, have started a new web page for
>"strange things we find in the trash" .
>No really, we have found an object that we are trying to identify, a
>drawing of which is at:
>
>  http://198.187.0.42:80/ehp/rp/default.htm#mystery
>
>It contains roughly (very roughly) 1 uCi of Radium and it does not glow
>in the dark (tried). The round "head" has a clear plastic section over
>the radium, with orange-ish-red plastic top and bottom of the clear part.
> Sizes are indicated on the drawing.  No one here has seen anything like
>it before, but general consensus is that it looks military in origin.
>Anyone who has a minute can stop by the web site and see if they can tell
>what it is.
>
>Thanks!
>
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>Bruce Busby   W - bab1303@hub.doh.wa.gov  H - babusby@aol.com
>Radiation Health Physicist - Washington State Department of Health
>Radiation Protection Division - Radioactive Materials Section
>7171 Cleanwater Lane, Building 5, PO Box 47827
>Olympia, WA      98504-7827
>Phone: 360-236-3222      Fax: 360-236-2255
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