[time-nuts] How dangerous if Rb lamp broken?

J. Forster jfor at quikus.com
Tue Jul 9 13:16:16 UTC 2013


Many people are just phobic about radiation, partially becayse tgey don't
understand it.

Some years ago, the DoD was trying to get approval for a Phased Array
early warning RADAR on Cape Cod, MA, called Pave Paws. Public hearings
were held and the public kept asking 'Will the radiation contaminate the
ocean? and 'How long will the radiation contaminate the environment?'

Also, as a freshman a long time ago, I was a subject to measure body fat.
The technique was to go into a shielded chamber (16" thick battleship
aqrmor plate, from the pre-atomic age) and lie under a scintillator
crystal, coupled to an MCA. The number of (K or Ca ?) decays per hour was
measured and the lean body mass calculated.

If you image in the thermal IR, you are seeing images formed by body
emissions.

Radiation is a fact of life. It is used as a boogieman by some, to suit
their agendas.

-John

=============




>
> Le 9 juil. 2013 à 13:49, Robert Atkinson a écrit :
>
>> Hi
>> Why are so many people radiophobic? As in ionising radiation. There are
>> far more hazardous things in our hobby, electrocution and falling from a
>> height be two of the big killers. I defy anyone to come up with a
>> confirmed case of death caused by radiation as part of our hobby. Lead,
>> solder flux, mercury, PCB's (the chemical in some caps and transformers)
>> and cleaning solvents are all more harmful to our health. The use of
>> radioisotopes directly or indirectly saves lives every day. Coal fired
>> powerstations release more long life radioactive isotopes ro the
>> environment than a nuclear one would ever be permitted to, plus a load
>> of heavy metals.
>
> How true. I can't understand it either.
>
> _______________________________________________
> time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts at febo.com
> To unsubscribe, go to
> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
> and follow the instructions there.
>
>





More information about the Time-nuts_lists.febo.com mailing list