RE: Can you help ?

["Montalvo, Bill" <WRM1@pge.com>]

Before I spent too much time doing any more research, I'd make damn sure
there's no dose rate issue involved.  Translation:  Get someone with a dose
rate instrument to look at it right away.  There's no telling what these
folks may have "inherited".

Bill Montalvo
RP Engineer
Humboldt Bay Power Plant
Eureka, CA

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> From: 	Jones, Pauline[SMTP:pjones@Kilcom1.UCIS.Dal.Ca]
> Reply To: 	radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
> Sent: 	Wednesday, June 10, 1998 3:43 AM
> To: 	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: 	Re: Can you help ?
> 
>  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
>