RE: Watch your watch watch radiation...

["Jean-Francois, Stephane" <stephane_jeanfrancois@merck.com>]

I did not know they still exist !  It has been around for at least 5 years
now and I have only seen one, worn by a very proud industrial radiographer
that had, for once, a device more spectacular then the ones that Atomic
Energy Control Board (Canada)  inspectors had... He was using it as a double
back up for its PAD and thought about using it as a survey meter. Hum... I
can imagine the guy verifying the gammapgraphy camera with the watch ON his
wrist... 

I don't know about you but I have some problems going with a radiation
survey meter to social events, beach, cinema etc.  I wonder why they don't
have built-in 100  square cm. contamination monitor device ?

Maybe it will appear in the next desaster movie...

Stephane JF
RSO
Merck Frosst Canada
Gestion des Risques/Risk Management
) stephane_jeanfrancois@merck.com
% (514) 428.8695
FAX: (514) 428.4917

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> From: 	Scott D. Kniffin[SMTP:Scott.D.Kniffin.1@gsfc.nasa.gov]
> Sent: 	Wednesday, May 13, 1998 10:43 AM
> To: 	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: 	Watch your watch watch radiation...
> 
> Good (choose one:) Morning, Day, Evening!
> 
> One of the tech's here stumbled on this site for a radiation detecting
> wrist watch and forwarded it to me.  Truly bizarre and very cool.  I
> wonder
> if I can get management to apporove the purchase for uh, safety reasons,
> yea, safety reasons.  This sure beats my Timex.  The site is even pro-nuke
> with a nice series of links to Nuke Societies/Organizations/Etc. 
> 
> http://www.ppm.net/yperwatch
> 
> Anybody out there have one of these?  
> 
> Scott Kniffin
> 
> mailto:Scott.D.Kniffin.1@gsfc.nasa.gov
> RSO, Unisys Corp. @ Lanham, MD
> CHO, Radiation Effects Facility, GSFC, NASA, Greenbelt, MD
> 
> The opinions expressed here are my own.  They do not necessarily represent
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>