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Just wondering: has someone never geiger countered any rep?


GenTLe

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Hi Gents,

as I'm hearing all sort of bad stuff about china products, like:

- toxic compounds used to color clothes (http://www.straight.com/news/592471/long-banned-pcb-found-clothing-paints-and-paper-yellow-pigment),

- rubber containing toxic s_it used to produce pacifiers until 2011 (http://www.foodproductiondaily.com/Packaging/China-bans-bisphenol-A-in-baby-bottles-vows-death-penalty-for-serious-safety-breaches)

- industrial waste muds for toothpaste (http://www.securingindustry.com/cosmetics-and-personal-care/lawsuit-in-counterfeit-toothpaste-case-targets-importer/s106/a1653/#.U45JZPm1Yog),

- ...

 

I'm just wondering if any of you has tried to put his rep under a geiger counter... You never know we are bringing around stuff made with steel recycled from some nuclear plant... 

And, sincerely, I'd avoid also rubber straps not coming from proven & certified companies...

 

Bye,

GenTLe

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Very funny that you bring this up! just had an incident at work wearing a vintage Hamilton, set of some radiation monitors and when I checked the watch with a portable frisker it was reading over 10,000 cpm and just below 80nCi.

I have never alarmed a monitor wearing a rep though, I would be surprised if they are being produced with recycled radioactive steel, where exactly would one come across this? and wouldn't it be easier to just get regular non radioactive steel that wasn't recycled from a nuclear plant (again, where would one even get this?)

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Very funny that you bring this up! just had an incident at work wearing a vintage Hamilton, set of some radiation monitors and when I checked the watch with a portable frisker it was reading over 10,000 cpm and just below 80nCi.

I have never alarmed a monitor wearing a rep though, I would be surprised if they are being produced with recycled radioactive steel, where exactly would one come across this? and wouldn't it be easier to just get regular non radioactive steel that wasn't recycled from a nuclear plant (again, where would one even get this?)

Stainless steel from a nuclear reactor would be very high grade.

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To be fair, he didn't say reactor, he just said nuclear plant, opening us up to a very wide range of stainless steel grades. I just have one question... 

WHERE WOULD YOU EVEN GET THIS FROM :g:

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Thanks Freddy, feeling better now

icopernicus: Europeans send all sort of s_it to be demolished in the far east, but yet I admit that very unlikely Uk or Sweden or... may send there a nuclear powered military submarine (even old one)

Don't know if I could say the same about 50yo USSR dismissed power plants, but still very unlikely...

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"radioactive...something that CUSTOMS would catch."

 

Twenty+ years ago when I had a real job, I helped place a 100 ton load of scrap steel in a steel company to be used in various projects and the next day it was taped off and guys in hazmat suits were all over it. It was HOT. The load made it all the way from Russia without detection.

From Russia with love...

 

China is infamous for exporting poison pet food, leaded paint on kid toys etc.

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Yeah, but the world has changed a lot in those 20+ years!    :)

 

 

"radioactive...something that CUSTOMS would catch."

 

Twenty+ years ago when I had a real job, I helped place a 100 ton load of scrap steel in a steel company to be used in various projects and the next day it was taped off and guys in hazmat suits were all over it. It was HOT. The load made it all the way from Russia without detection.

From Russia with love...

 

China is infamous for exporting poison pet food, leaded paint on kid toys etc.

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"Yeah but the world has changed a lot in those 20+ years!"

 

Not very much imho.

Greed is still #1 and selling contaminated scrap metal is just another way to make a fast buck.

Looks like Japan is on the Hot Seat now. The scrap metal has to be pretty bad if the Chinese will not buy it.

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Hi Gents,

as I'm hearing all sort of bad stuff about china products, like:

- toxic compounds used to color clothes (http://www.straight.com/news/592471/long-banned-pcb-found-clothing-paints-and-paper-yellow-pigment),

- rubber containing toxic s_it used to produce pacifiers until 2011 (http://www.foodproductiondaily.com/Packaging/China-bans-bisphenol-A-in-baby-bottles-vows-death-penalty-for-serious-safety-breaches)

- industrial waste muds for toothpaste (http://www.securingindustry.com/cosmetics-and-personal-care/lawsuit-in-counterfeit-toothpaste-case-targets-importer/s106/a1653/#.U45JZPm1Yog),

- ...

 

I'm just wondering if any of you has tried to put his rep under a geiger counter... You never know we are bringing around stuff made with steel recycled from some nuclear plant... 

And, sincerely, I'd avoid also rubber straps not coming from proven & certified companies...

 

Bye,

GenTLe

 

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