THE determination of all but the simplest radioactive decay schemes necessitates a means of analysis of the γ-rays emitted, so that coincidences may be measured between the various γ-rays, and also ...

Very low backgroud detectors are required to identify rare events, including solar neutrinos, searches for dark matter, double beta decay events, and searches for proton decay. Liquid scintillation ...

Can’t find a recently updated survey of radioactivity in your neighborhood? Try [Hunter Long]’s DIY scintillation counter warwalking rig. (Video also embedded below.) What looks like a paint can with ...

Since late last year, the silver-short U.S. has been forced to mint silverless “sandwich” quarters and dimes containing a central layer of copper between two thin slices of copper-nickel alloy. Now ...

THE determination of radioactive krypton in the atmosphere, as carried out by the Radiological Sciences Laboratory, New York State Department of Health (private communication from N. Irving Sax), ...

If you want to work with radioactive material, a cheap Geiger counter isn’t really what you want. According to [Project 326], ...

Authorized users must equip their laboratories with the appropriate survey instruments in good working order for each radioactive material use laboratory/facility. The Radiation Safety Office is ...

For most patients, the old-fashioned basal metabolism test is a mild form of torture, but that would be no reason for discarding it if it were a consistently accurate test. The fact is that it is far ...