On Sunday, 6 October 2013 22:11:25 UTC+1, pcguru2000 wrote: > With the pricing of nixie tubes, you have to wonder if any of the nixes on > sale by russian sources came from areas of the chernobyl contamination > zone? If some idiot went to the abandoned control room and starting > pulling out nixie tubes to resell for $$, would the usps/ups/fedex have > radiation sensors in place that would save us from getting something very > radioactive? > > Nixies are naturally radioactive, but the type of radiation is probably > benign, how would we know if they weren't from a contaminated site? >
Nixes are NOT naturally radioactive - those that did have a VERY SLIGHT doping with Kr85 which has a half-life of slightly under 11 years, so by now there'll be pretty much nothing at all left. No danger whatsoever (and there never was any danger, even when initially manufactured) Nixies are not so expensive as to warrant a suicide mission inside Chernobyl or anywhere else for that matter. If I wasn't such a trusting person, I'd suspect that this was a troll :) Nick -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/2fd52207-4b7d-4313-823f-ffebc97b4843%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
