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profiled in the Boston Globe, Newsmax.com, WorldNetDaily, National
Defense Magazine, the Washigton Post, New York Times, USA Today, the
San Francisco Chronicle, the Wall Street Journal, IEEE Spectrum, and
Newsday ...
NukAlert
Key-Chain Attachable, 24/7 Personal Radiation Monitor and Alarm
Passed EMP Immunity and meets MIL-STD 461D, RS105
Introduced at The Health Physics Society Convention January 2003
Compact Key Chain Attachable Radiation Monitor & Alarm
Monitoring is "ON" 24/7 with long-life ten+ year battery
Range encompasses the higher emergency radiation levels
10 easily recognizable 'chirping' alarm levels from chart
Patented 'State of the Art' Detector Technology
Verified by independent National Radiological Laboratory
Each NukAlert individually radiation accuracy tested
Instruction manual with personal nuclear survival strategies
2-year manufacturer's warranty (and 10-year prorated warranty!) - Made in U.S.A.
Carried
everywhere your keys go, with NukAlert's 24/7 non-stop monitoring,
you'll always be promptly alerted to unseen, but acutely dangerous,
higher levels of radiation.
An additional benefit of the NukAlert results from its negative monitoring [remaining silent] when those higher levels of radiation are not present.
With
the anticipated general public panic accompanying a nuclear crisis, it
will be very reassuring to know with confidence when your family is out
of the worst danger.
"This is the most remarkable advance in civil defense equipment in many, many years. These are truly great devices."
- Dr. Arthur B. Robinson, Director of Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, Publisher of 'Nuclear War Survival Skills' book, Co-Author of the Civil Defense book 'Fighting Chance' which sold over 500,000 copies.
SPECIFICATIONS:
Detectable Radiation: Gamma and X-ray from 40 keV to 2 MeV
Ranges: 100mR/hr to 50R/hr indicated in 10 ranges
Indication: Repeating groups of rapid
countable chirps (up to 9 chirps per group). Each additional chirp in
an alarm group indicates doubling of the measured dose rate. Alarm
measurement groups are repeated about twice per minute
Operational indicator: faint "ticking" when functioning but not alarming
Alarm loudness: ~ 61 dBA (conversational level, for battery conservation)
Durability: functional after 6 foot drop to concrete, submersion to 6' depth
Battery: Operational Life Expectancy Non-alarming (monitor mode - ticking) - 10 to 15 years Alarming continuously at single chirp level - 3 years Alarming continuously at highest alarm level - 3 months (fatal dose < 12 hrs)
Detector: patented CdS photo resistor coupled to a rare earth phosphor scintillator
Housing: hermetically sealed, radiation transparent, abrasion resistant ABS plastic
Accuracy: Within +/- 1 chirp
Response Time: Dose rate dependent, faster at higher doses ~3 to 4 min. @100mr/hr, seconds in the R/hr ranges
Accumulated dose chart printed on back, time @ alarm rate till 100R dose.
EMP immunity: tested to meet MIL-STD-461D, RS105
Over range survivability: Functional after 5000 R/hr. for 2 hour duration.
Temperature Range: (-20 degrees C) to (+50
degrees C) Specified accuracy at temperature equilibrium between 0 and
40 degrees C, alarm can be briefly activated by very rapid temperature
increase so as to hear what the alarm sounds like
Physical: Length 1.75in., width 1.25 in., 3/4in thick, Weight <1.0 oz.
Who Needs a NukAlert?
The
reasons for acquiring a radiation detector or meter, and formulating a
family nuclear response strategy, are as varied as are peoples concerns
for the future and the safety of their loved ones in this ever changing
world. The following all-inclusive list would require different
responses (sheltering or evacuation) depending on the nature of the
nuclear emergency, but clearly survival in all would be enhanced with
having a radiation detector or meter close at hand.
The specific causes of potential life-threatening nuclear radiation emergencies include ...
- Nuclear power plant accidents here or abroad (Three Mile Island, Chernobyl)
- Nuclear materials processing plant accidents (Tokaimura, Japan)
- Nuclear waste (radioactive waste
from hospitals, spent fuel and radioactive waste from nuclear power
plants, radioactive contaminated materials, etc.) storage or processing
facilities mishaps
- Nuclear waste transport truck or train accidents
- Accidents involving non-waste, but
normal daily nuclear materials transport (trucks, planes, trains,
couriers) One out every 50 HazMat shipments contain radioactive
materials. Approximately three million packages of radioactive material
are shipped in the United States each year.
- Improper storage of radioactive
materials (non-waste) at any point during their normal material life
cycle. (Power plants, Medical, Industrial, Academic, etc.)
- Lost or stolen radioactive sources (Over the last 50 years, incidents of lost or stolen licensed radioactive devices occur at the rate of once every other day. See Lost and Stolen Nuclear Materials in the U.S. and NRC Documents Revealing Thousands of Radioactive Source Are Missing.)
- Nuclear terrorism here via...
- An attack on, or sabotage of, a nuclear power plant. (See Sabotage and Terrorism of Nuclear Power Plants)
- Or, a real terrorist atomic bomb detonated here (See Is al Qaeda Preparing a Nuclear Hit?)
- Or, more likely, conventional
explosives used to disperse radioactive materials (dirty bomb) to
effectively contaminate an area and much within in it. (See Do terrorists really have nukes here?)
- Or, food or water supplies could be contaminated with radioactive materials.
- Or, a strong radioactive source
could be placed in a location adjacent to where large numbers of the
public would file past. They could be unknowingly and dangerously
exposed to it, such as at a subway que, sports arena or stadium, etc.
- Limited nuclear war overseas with the fallout carried here by the wind (See Trans-Pacific Fallout for threat here if any of the 'players' went nuclear in the Mid-East, or Pakistan, India, North Korea, China, Russia, etc.)
- Nuclear War involving a direct attack upon the USA.
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