those radiation detectors do indeed work!

when a family member was being treated with chemo, we needed a doctors note to cross the border. She set off the radiation detectors.... somebody gave us a heads up before we crossed, so it wasn't an inconvience.

 

I wonder if they able to trace it to a particular machine to determine when it could have been put there

 

Does anyone remember the incident in 87 in Brazil where a couple guys found a gamma ray machine in the woods, decided to scrap it, and found the glowing blue radioactive part? They were facinated by it and carried it around, I think it wound up being one of the worst incidents in Brazil.

Here is the wikipedia link, it's an interesting read.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goiânia_accident

 

I hauled some granite out of Ontario once, a 45,000 lb solid piece. I set off the radiation detector at customs in my lane and the lane next to mine. They really are that sensitive.

 

i don't remember that, too busy trying to keep mt marks up to graduate grade 12. Certainly a terrible tragedy