Re: [MV] WW 2 steel and U boat salvage

From: Douglas Greville (dgrev@ruralnet.net.au)
Date: Mon Jun 16 2003 - 21:37:10 PDT


Joe

> How come all of the radium dials on clocks and gauges
> isn't contaminating those old steel ships?/

In the main it probably disperses or only settles on the surface of the
steel. I do know of one surplus yard here in Oz (now gone) with a room
full of WW2 English aero guages. Would have been very interesting to
walk in there with a counter, no doubt.
However, their chief problem became a whole warehouse of surplus that
was discovered to be contaminated by PCBs. They were barred from it by
the authorities. I never did discover what the end of that story was
nor where the PCBs came from.

Regards
Doug

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