"Larry W4CSC" wrote in message
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Hee hee....funny you should mention that, Bruce......

Ol' Larry whips out his radiation counter from a nearby bin, passes it
over the tube guts and declares it non-radioactive....sweeps it up and
dumps it in the sh!tcan.....(c;
/
I didn't have the heart to tell him NONE of the tube PARTS is
radioactive....just the gas that WAS in it before he broke it. The
gas was gone so it was a non-issue.....(c;
/
I don't know where NAV gets these crazy, paranoid ideas.....(sigh)

Larry, very funny story! ...but not at all accurate w/r to detection of
radioactive material, the type and emissions of which your "geiger counter"
was never designed to detect.

While we could have played similar games with inspectors, the weapons and
propulsion engineers that inspected my old missile submarine would probably
have missed the humour. ;-)

Jack in Virginia Beach