... counters ... counters ... is a ... designed by ... to any ... people in ... I think that's the only reasonable explanation for the abuse of terminology....
All radioisotope neutron sources are regulated by the NRC. While it may seem straightforward to simply put a piece of Beryllium in front of an Am241 source...
I just received my copy of Living With Radiation: The First Hundred Years by Paule Frame & William Kolb and highly recommend it. A very good book book for the...
Geo, are you still working on your filter museum exhibit? I might be working soon for a company that does museum exhibits, and I learned that if you expose a...
... may seem ... Am241 ... generator ... I've been wondering about how deep the n come from on the Be grains recently.. since alphas don't go far.. Plus,...
Even if they would do all that destruction QUIETLY, but NOOOOOO! After visiting several museums around the country this summer ( Los Alamos, Albuquerque, Oak...
Deuterium is used as a tracer in biological processes, as well as in vacuum tubes, UV lamps and certain lasers. The cross section for the Proton fusion ...
There is a good reason to love Ludlum. Thay make the scale to match the probe type, and are easily interchanged. DIfferent scales for pancake, hot-dog,...
Na-22 is of course a radioisotope of sodium, having a half-life of 2.6 years. Not naturally occurring, it is commonly created in a Cyclotron by bombarding...
.> What is deuterium commonly used for? Why isn't normal hydrogen used? Deuterium H-2 is an isotopes of normal hydrogen but has an extra Neutron in the atom....
Beta's are nothing more or less than electrons, given freedom of flight in a nuclear decay. Having a negative charge and very little mass, they can be...
Okay, listen up! I want all of you to memorize this list. There will be a test on it on Wednesday.. http://webmineral.com/determin/radioactivity.php...
Geo; Check the postal shipping info on this one...Does this agree with what you know? It's above 70 bacq... http://webmineral.com/data/Samarskite-(Y).shtml ...
I was mailing out some radium dialed clocks and watches about two weeks ago. The new limits on what you are allowed to ship have changed. The item can be no...
I wondered about that. My brother is in Globe, AZ (mining town) and came upon a really nice torbernite sample. I told him to hold off on shipping it- it's...
I did not ask about shielding, but my impression was the activity is confined to the object, not how much activity is shielded. If it is 70 Bq, no shipping...
That is correct, see page 50 of this document. The Postman did not say per gram when he quoted me. http://www.usps.com/cpim/ftp/pubs/pub52.pdf Chris Cavanaugh...
*From the 199 release of PUB52.* 347 Radioactive Materials (Hazard Class 7) 347.1 Definition Radioactive material is defined in 49 CFR 173.403 as any material ...
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