[Milsurplus] [armyradios] Radio set values

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That's moderately hot.  Double 21,000C/M @ 6" would be 17.5 mR/Hr at the 
standard distance of 1 ft.  I haven't kept up with standards since I got out 
of the business but the unmonitored boundary around operations used to be 
2mR/Hr.  Which would be at a distance of just under 3 ft. from the Gibson Girl.

In a message dated 04/29/2013 18:25:53 PM Central Daylight Time, 
clare.owens at gmail.com writes: 
> I can't help with the values but I can say that he should not attempt to
> clean or otherwise disturb the Gibson Girl's front panel black area, where
> the light colored panel legends are radioactive radium paint, completely
> unprotected.  The markings normally do not glow in the dark any more
> because the phosphor materials have deteriorated in the past 60 years.
> 
> My Gibson Girl is the most radioactive thing I own by a fair margin.  At a
> distance of 6 inches it reads about twice as many counts per minute as I
> get at 6 inches from my 5 microcurie Cs137 test disk.  The Cs-137 at 6
> inches averages around 21,000 CPM on my Mazur PRM-9000.
> 
> Left alone the paint really isn't a problem but ingested or breathed in it
> could be quite nasty.
> 
> Clare

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