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From: gwh%typhoon.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert)
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Subject: Re: Radioactive stuff on a MiG
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Date: 14 Oct 89 01:56:25 GMT
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From: gwh%typhoon.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert)
In article <10183@cbnews.ATT.COM> nsc!taux01.nsc.com!taux01.UUCP!amos@decwrl.dec.com (Amos Shapir) writes:
>Last night there was an extensive coverage of the Syrian MiG23 that
>landed here yesterday.  Among the inscriptions on it, I noticed
>the three-winged icon of a radioactivity warning.  Does anybody know
>what radioactive materials may be carried aboard a MiG23, and what
>they are used for?

	Aha! The famed 'radioactivity' symbol misunderstanding :)
The symbol actually is defined (i'm assuming you mean the 'windmill'
symbol) as meaning _Radiation_ hazard, not radioactivity hazard...

	Radar produces enough microwave RF to be a radiation hazard.
As do some radio transmitters, etc.  The windmill you saw was probably
on a radar antenna (or radome covering it) or high-power radio antenna.

	Radioactives have the symbol because radio_active_ materials
produce radiation.  


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George William Herbert  UCB Naval Architecture Dpt. (my god, even on schedule!)
maniac@garnet.berkeley.edu  gwh@ocf.berkeley.edu
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