I awoke too early this morning, had an episode with dog #2 heading for the loo, which crashed the dresser resplendent with Her gewgaws... so I'm persona non grata in the sleep chamber. Nothing new about that. lol
I stagger onwards, in search of water, and figure I might as well build a fire under the LT and see what gogle thinks is representative of news.
That's where my saga continued...
Our dosimeter powers up because it's connected to the LT usb port.
It's disconcerting when it immediately starts clicking at a moderate rate. The readings are frequently higher early in the mornings, because the neighborhood reactor, as all NPP's, may do their staged tritium release in the wee hours of the morning, so people are less prone to notice the spike. Our GM Counter usually idles along at 17-18cpms most of the time, but higher counts of 25-28cpm are generally in the mornings. Highest spike I've ever seen from it was 32cpm, when I was out in the garden one morning, tending the baccy plants.
Did I mention I have few short stories...
Each time the GM Counter is active I look to see if I've set something near it that may affect it... who knows, a rock or something I brought in from the garden, or a bit of metal I had taken out of my pocket the day before.
The LT has gone through it's startup routine, loading all that background crap I rarely use, so I run a search for tritium release and get 481k results in 0.43 seconds. Pros and cons, of course. I'm certainly not gonna select one of the NRC presentations, because I know they are prodigious liars, so I attempt to select one of the less volatile con presentations and I discover a 'Fact Sheet'... Yah... It's a pdf designed as a handout by the Health Physics Society, whatever that may be.
A few pages later, (short, pamphlet styled pages), there is mention of B-10 in PWRs and old Inconel grades which may deteriorate, causing leaks... which does get my attention because I DO have a small amount of Inconel scrap, purchased from the DWP, many years ago. (I never used the tubing on the ham radio antenna project I was working on, back then, because the stuff is just too difficult to work with.)
So next, I ran a search on Inconel and watched a short Youtube review in which the fellow mentions it was used for the skin on the X-15, and, Mazda rotary engine exhaust systems, AND, the Norton mc rotary engined exhaust system... along with turbines and NPPs.
I've had a few Mazda rotaries, and they were fun until the system electronics made them untenable, and I knew Suzuki had made a rotary engined mc.
I never knew Norton had built one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd4Y6sQ7ctw
Or Yamaha...
And there are others...
I'll take my chinagirl into town for a short spin, thinking about other 2smoke motors. 'Clicky' is ticking along at 15cpm now... No 'glow to the west'!
rc
