Re: 250,000 volt nuclear transformer

To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: 250,000 volt nuclear transformer
From: "Bryan L. Kaufman MD, MS" <bryan-at-apexrad-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 21:08:02 -0700
Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
Delivered-To: fixup-tesla-at-pupman-dot-com-at-fixme

I can speak with some knowlege about the radiation issue. If you are 
obtaining this through legitimate sources, they are prohibited from
releasing anything that is contaminated with radioisotopes; and it is
checked as part of the decommissioning routine. AEC would be all over them.
On the other hand if the source was even qustionable, I would borrow a
geiger counter or a "QTPie" from somebody (know anyone at a hospital with a
nuclear medicine dept?)

There is no possibility that any radiation impinging on the device would
make it radioactive. The dose levels for that require the item to be inside
the reactor, which a transformer would have no reason for.

As for the contamination issue, it is non-existent if the paper trail is
traceable.

> Original Poster: "Andy Cleary" <gemware2-at-dreamscape-dot-com>
>
>  I have received numerous questions about the radiation - and truthfully, I
> don't know.  I assume that it was no place near the reactor core, and the
> only reason why it was removed is because it was "obsolete".