Re: Can you help ?

[Tad Blanchard <Tad.M.Blanchard.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>]

Pauline,

Call these people, they should be able to help identify the quantity of
Cobalt-60 in this tube.  (They are usually contain about 0.1 microcuries
and cannot be detected with a standard geiger counter)



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MICROWAVE POWER TUBE PRODUCTS
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PALO ALTO, CA 94304-1031

At 06:20 AM 6/10/98 -0500, you wrote:
> An elderly "flea marketing " couple in my area got in touch with me 
>about a device that they discovered in a box of goodies purchased at 
>a recent auction. This small device has a radiation trefoil attached 
>and indicates that it contains Co-60. The manufacturer of the unit is 
>Microwave Associates. Through some investigating I have been able to 
>establish that it is a 1B63A Fixed Tuned Gas Switching Tube, however, 
>have not been able to establish the quantity of Co-60 contained in 
>this unit. Is there anyone out there in the Radsafe community who can 
>help me ?
>
>
>Pauline Jones
>Dalhousie University
>Halifax, Nova Scotia
>pjones@kilcom1.ucis.dal.ca
>
>
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