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From: edhall@rand.org (Ed Hall)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: How to measure/detect X-ray (cheap)?
Message-ID: <1991May3.194713.15676@rand.org>
Date: 3 May 91 19:47:13 GMT
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In article <4212786@harvee.UUCP> esj@harvee.UUCP (Eric S Johansson) writes:
>I would not trust film badge dosimeters.  My wife works for a vet and
>they use film badge dosimeters in their x-ray room.  One of her co-workers
>decieded to "test" the dosimeter by giving it a full dose of x-rays
>i.e the badge was the x-ray target.  The report on the badge gave no
>indication that the badge had been exposed.

Could well be that the badge showed a high exposure, then a human was
called into the loop who took one look at it and said "Looks like some
joker put this one in the beam; no problem."  I'm sure that your wife's
co-worker wasn't the first one to "test" the system in this way.

		-Ed Hall
		edhall@rand.org