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Default Thorium Mantles?

In message .com,
writes
Newshound wrote:


It's actually for testing an old Geiger counter that was a Maplin kit.


The natural K40 in high potash fertiliser will give you about double the
natural background.


I was told that the radiation detectors at Sellafield/Windscale were
sensitive enough to trigger an alarm if somebody went past them
carrying a pack of cigarettes -


Sounds like ******** to me

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geoff