http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CDV700CLUB/ The CDV 700 Club is a forum for like minded individuals that enjoy collecting, fixing up, and using geiger counters and other r Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:14:50 GMT troglodite@... http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CDV700CLUB/message/31422 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CDV700CLUB/message/31422 In a message dated 11/9/2009 5:08:43 P.M. Central Standard Time, dahur1@... writes: Background here is 7-9 uR/hr, which it was most of the drive. Almost as Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:03:25 GMT dannypaul02 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CDV700CLUB/message/31421 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CDV700CLUB/message/31421 ... My neighbor across the street has lived all his life here in Alamogordo. He was 8 when the Trinity event happened, and he remembers it, although all he Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:07:38 GMT Steve Schoner http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CDV700CLUB/message/31420 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CDV700CLUB/message/31420 in late 1954 or early 1955, my father who worked on V-2, and Viking missiles at White Sands sneaked out to the Trinity site. It was off limits then, but I Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:03:53 GMT dannypaul02 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CDV700CLUB/message/31419 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CDV700CLUB/message/31419 Correction. The Trinity site is 10x background, not 2x. http://www.atomictourist.com/trinity.htm Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:49:00 GMT dannypaul02 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CDV700CLUB/message/31418 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CDV700CLUB/message/31418 Since we were going to Las Cruces Saturday, I decided to take along the PM1703M. It's about 65 miles from here in Alamogordo to Cruces, and I-70 goes right Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:46:32 GMT revtkatt http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CDV700CLUB/message/31417 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CDV700CLUB/message/31417 ... Except that there are small useful differences due to mass. Cf Zipp centrifuges. Lawrence's cyclotrons. Diffusion. And for hydrogen, you can extract Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:38:49 GMT revtkatt http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CDV700CLUB/message/31416 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CDV700CLUB/message/31416 ... I am a little confused here. You break a traser, it dissipates, and way up in the stratosphere gets oxidized (UV helps) and so enters the biosphere. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:32:54 GMT ericfurn2 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CDV700CLUB/message/31414 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CDV700CLUB/message/31414 ... Never mind. I got what I needed from TSA. Very rapid response.. Eric Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:59:09 GMT Eric Furness http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CDV700CLUB/message/31413 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CDV700CLUB/message/31413 I bought a TSA PRM-470P. Works ok but would like a manual, drawings. I found manuals for PRM-470B and PRM-470cgn but those manuals bear little resemblance to Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:46:38 GMT Ken Sejkora http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CDV700CLUB/message/31412 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CDV700CLUB/message/31412 The inhalation dose factor for molecular tritium (HT) is 6.67E-6 mrem/uCi, or 0.00000667 mrem for every microcurie breathed in.  If you oxidize that tritium Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:05:44 GMT K0FF http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CDV700CLUB/message/31411 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CDV700CLUB/message/31411 Sure, chemically, anything that H does, H3 does. Isotopes (same # protons, different # neutrons) always behave the same chemically. If they have a different Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:32:50 GMT robert8rpi http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CDV700CLUB/message/31410 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CDV700CLUB/message/31410 Tritium also binds to some surfaces. Stainless steel is one, I've been to a lab clearance were there were about 20 modern mass spectrometers that they could Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:14:45 GMT Chris Cavanaugh http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CDV700CLUB/message/31409 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CDV700CLUB/message/31409 Thanks Geo; That makes much more sense. High ambient humidity would not be a good thing. Chris Cavanaugh cav427@... Yukon, OK ... From: K0FF To: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:43:55 GMT troglodite@... http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CDV700CLUB/message/31408 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CDV700CLUB/message/31408 In a message dated 11/4/2009 1:17:02 P.M. Central Standard Time, GEOelectronics@... writes: H3 soaks up water vapor and becomes 3H2O, or Tritated Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:18:24 GMT K0FF http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CDV700CLUB/message/31407 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CDV700CLUB/message/31407 H3 soaks O2 and becomes 3H2O, or Tritated water. Makes an easy entry into people that way. Geo