you never know what you will find in the attic

[ensho]

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php


Two sisters cleaning out their elderly father's house about noon today could have used a hand from Superman when they came across a box of apparently radioactive rocks. However, the Indianapolis Fire Department's hazardous materials team saved the day, and no one was injured. The sisters, Anita Cohee, 56, and Diane Serban, 58, were going through some of their father's things in the attic of his home in the 5500 block of Skyridge Drive when they found a small box labeled "radioactive ore, according to a news release from IFD spokeswoman Rita Burris.The box also included the notation "Uranium Thorium/Detection Corporation North Hollywood California." Inside the box, the sisters found nine plastic-wrapped rocks in layers of cotton. They closed the box, got everyone out of the house and called 911. Firefighters and Haz Mat Team 13 arrived and got a positive reading for radiation. A second reading with a different kind of meter, gave them a reading of 13
microrems. Burris said the haz-mat team said that was a small amount of radioactive material -- about 1/100,000th of one rem. Still, they packed the rocks into an official yellow drum and removed it from the house. It will be turned it over to the Marion County Health Department for proper disposal. Firefighters spent about 50 minutes at the scene and the family was allowed to go back into the house. The sisters' father, Van Cones, 93, lived in the house since 1974 but has moved into an assisted living facility. There was no information available on why he had a box of radioactive rocks in his attic.
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[onethatcares]

1. just wait til they get the bill for that phonecall

oooooooowwwwwwww, that's gonna hurt.

[MineralMan]

2. That was a kit of radioactive minerals that came with a geiger

counter of some kind, made by that company. Back in the 1950s, a lot of those were sold.

I used to sell mineral specimens to collectors. Radioactive minerals were part of my inventory. All were alpha emitters, and were perfectly safe to view and handle. They were also perfectly legal to send through the mail, both domestically and internationally.

Nobody was in any danger from these samples. They came with the geiger counter so the user would have something to use to test it and to get experience in using it.

If you have smoke detectors in your home, you have radioactive sources with about the same emissions as these mineral samples.

Everyone overreacted in this situation.

Want some radioactive mineral samples. Many people sell them on ebay. Search for uraninite or autunite to find a bunch. There are even gemstones cut from uraninite. I wouldn't wear them, but you can handle those minerals. If displayed behind glass, the radioactivity is undetectable. You can probably even find one of those old 1950s boxes of samples, just like in the story. And guess what? You can still send them through the mail. How about that?

This is another example of your Hungarian conspiracy theory site getting it wrong. That site does it all the time.

[ensho]

3. what would we ever do without you?

nt

[MineralMan]

4. I don't know. I provided some information that wasn't in

your post. Is there a problem with doing that. I've seen that same box of minerals. I've even sold one just like it. I have the information. Your post does not.

Clarification is always good. Perspective is always good. You'll find neither on that site in Hungary.

[Motown_Johnny]

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I was curious

[MineralMan]

6. Those aren't mineral samples.

Search for uraninite or autunite. Those are natural minerals. There are many others. They're perfectly legal to own, sell, and ship through the mail. They don't pose any real hazard. Some are very attractive, and they're popular with mineral collectors.

[pansypoo53219]

7. does al qaeda know this?

kim jong i?

[MineralMan]

8. Sure. They'd do them no good whatsoever.

You need tons of uranium ore to extract any useful uranium. Those mineral samples are expensive and small.

Just Google radioactive minerals. You'll find lots of places that sell them for collectors.

[NNN0LHI]

9. I bought a 50's era geiger counter at a garage sale once

It came with a little piece of radioactive material which I surmised was for testing or calibrating the device.

If you know is that what that material was for?

Don

[MineralMan]

10. It was for simply testing to make sure that the counter

was working. If you got a reading from the sample, the thing was functioning. Calibration samples are something else.