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Keychain radiation alarm

Thursday, April 20 2006 @ 12:08 AM PDT
Contributed by: matt
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Attention, Pure Strain Humans! Worried about dirty bombs? Nuclear power plant accidents? Or maybe you just like weird gadgets? Whichever describes you, check out the RadDetect keychain alarm. The technical details are interesting. It has 2 sensors: one scintillator/photodiode and one semiconductor. According to the site, it can detect a lot of fun stuff:

Exposure to gamma, beta, fast-neutron or x-ray radiation of 75 milliRoentgens per hour (mR/hr) is sufficient to trigger the low-level auto-alert. This includes Strontium 90, Cesium-137 and Cobalt-60, commonly available radioactive materials likely used in a dirty bomb (also called a radiological bomb). It will also detect radioactive iodine released from a nuclear reactor accident or fallout from a nuclear bomb.

If it works worth a damn the price of 130 domars is fair. If it doesn't really work--and really, who is going to be able to test it?--the manufacturer is a special kind of sleaze, preying on fear. (Of course, what I want to know is will it detect a Death Machine's Black Ray projectors? Because those will mess you up.)

Say, while you are loading up your keychain, why not get a nuclear light source to go with your radiation detector? (link fixed, they changed it on me.)

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