There is no danger about them tubes! Even a few cm away you cant detect the radiation anymore.
8 of the 5092a could not produce a visible gamma spectrometry peak on my professional detector. For comparison, a 6141 Voltage Regulator Tube does produce a relative big peak. About tubes from RUS/UKR, the chance you get tubes from chernobyl is very small. It seems the soviet produced large amounts of all kind of stuff, just browse ebay... capacitors,tubes,resistors,geiger tubes.... All can be found in large amounts. Chernobyl is still a military controlled zone, you would not get out there with truckloads of stuff. I guess there are abandodoned factories and storages all over russia where people take materials away. Back to radiation: The soviets even have abandoned nuclear heat generators (RTGs) in lighthouses and military bases, and those things have very dangerous sources in them. -- 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/d3dcedd7-4425-478d-80e1-349b41df22d0%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
