Fellow CDV'rs - We have a friend at the NEI blog! [third post down - the one with a picture of, um, a coffee mug] http://neinuclearnotes.blogspot.com/ ~Ruth ...
Vends Geo in a happily opportunistic yet excruciatingly accurate ... type from Plutonium, Radium, Radon, Polonium, and so many more highly radioactive...
You are right...I probably *do* have too much time on my hands...to be honest...I didn't build this one. A guy named Ryan Bocook built it. It's actually a...
Hi: It turns out the Bussard's company Energy Matter Conversion Corporation (EMC2 tm) was working on improving the Farnsworth Fusion reactor. They discovered...
This one includes some rational info from the NRC on how you can't kill with check sources. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15976951/site/newsweek/ Although the...
If the news media can't get their 'radiation facts' straight imagine how many other facts the news media can't get straight! Get your news from multiple...
Run "polonium 210 for sale" on your favorite search engine. Ya get results like this. 4. Townsville Bulletin: Radioactive posion for sale on web [ 01dec06 ] A...
Well, if the last of those 1950s toys were made 40 years ago, it's 105 half-lives old! I doubt the activity is measurable. Are staticmasters and polonium the...
My mnemonic to convert mR to mGy [and mrem to mSv] is just about as oddly financial: If one mR is $1.00, then 1 mGy is a big $100 bill. A mrem is a "dollar" of...
A real piece of work, that. Me thinks some fact checking is in order. And how bout the pic on the second page associating the president of Iran with the...
Geo wrote: Now when a legal matter comes up, everyone seems to be in their element. excruciatingly so. Maybe more lawyers out there than engineers? ...
Funny that none of the hysterical "omigod look what you can buy" stories mention that the Scary Isotope Du Jour is made, weighed and packaged by government...
... 1. CPM doesn't mean anything without knowing the detector. The question is, how many times background is yummy? That may be a personal-risk thing at lower...
This is a real question! Q: I am a geology student. I recently came across a sample of what I think was autunite in a box of sulfur. I performed a streak test...
DH, I assume this isn't you asking the question? I would be more concerned with why and who put Autunite in a container of Sulfur. Thanks, Ron ... From: DH To:...
Hello, People here in Europa rarely know what a geiger counter is. Just see forums and other news in UK with the word "Poison for sale". They panic when heard...
Nick Priest, one of the investigators in the Litvinenko piece, has criticized the fear-mongering about miniscule amounts of alpha contamination on aircraft. ...
The article by Broad is simple and to the point, also very accurte, as far as it goes. For some reason Polonium really is hard to keep inside a container ...
Q: I am a geology student. I recently came across a sample of what I think was autunite in a box of sulfur. I performed a streak test on it, looking for the...
... I suspect that the real reason Po seems to migrate so easily is that it is so easy to detect. Think about it. If you use the right detector, it takes...
... material ... exactly know. ... behind. Its also how you extract them from the mixture they're found in. E.g., if the last step in Seaborg's Pu extraction...
One of the docs below says 600 Decays/sec/Kg for Cs-137 is ok. That is of course over the whole spherical geometry and you have to know about your detector to...
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