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Macalaster Scientific Corp. "Radioactive Materials Kit"



Radsafers,

Back in May 1997 there were a couple of posts that discussed a "Radioactive Materials Kit."  The Kit was described as follows:

Macalaster Scientific Corp.
Radioactive Materials Kit
30145 (a product or catalog number I would presume)

Contents: Six (approximately 1/2 inch clear plastic cube) containers labeled - A, B, C, D, E, F.  There is a solid material in each cube.  A - Yellow/Green (radioactive), B - White, C - Yellow (radioactive), D - White, E - White (radioactive), F - Pale Yellow.

Vince Chase responded to the original post with the following information:

". . .Those kits are school demonstration projects meant for advanced high school or college level courses.  Macalaster Scientific was bought out by Raytheon around 1973.  If memory serves me,  those kits contained uranium and thorium compounds in natural abundance. . ."

A local high school just "gave" our Hazwaste Manager eleven of those kits.  Does anybody out there have anything more specific regarding the compounds found in the those kits.

Any help would be appreciated. . .

Regards,

-Erick Lindstrom






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