RE: Idiot Proof Survey Meters

["Reynolds, Harold" <harold.reynolds@rfets.gov>]

I agree that the RAD-TAD is sorely missed.  I used to carry one around taped
to the end of a broom stick as a remote tool for finding hot spots and high
dose rate areas before I walked into them. I also used it to orient workers
to their work area.  With the remote RAD-TAD, I would literally "show" them
where the high and low dose rate areas and hot spots were.  One day I
entered a room and found a worker sitting on a pipe for a rest.  When I
extended the RAD-TAD to the pipe next to his butt and it screamed, he moved
in a hurry!!  I think their demise was premature.  I don't know of any other
tool that would do what it did for me.

Harry
Harold.Reynolds@RFETS.gov

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	James G. Barnes [SMTP:mail15077%pop.net@inet.rfets.gov]
> Sent:	Friday, February 12, 1999 1:29 PM
> To:	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	RE:  Idiot Proof Survey Meters
> 
> About the only "idiot proof" detection device I ever encountered was the 
> old RAD-TAD.  Unfortunately, they don't make them anymore; they are sorely
> 
> missed.
> 
> Jim Barnes, CHP
> Radiation Safety Officer
> Rocketdyne / Boeing
> 
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