Radioactive Wrist Watches

Abstract

of the Radiotherapeutic Center at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, England, has reported in Nature (17 May 1958) that some luminous-dial wrist watches contain sufficient radium to subject their owners to nearly two-thirds the maximum permissible level for exposure of hands and forearms. According to Haybittle, one watch, having an estimated radium content of 2.2 u<c, recorded on a film placed Letters Radioactive Wrist Watches J. L. Haybittle, of the Radiotherapeutic Center at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, England, has reported in Nature (17 May 1958) that some luminous-dial wrist watches contain sufficient radium to subject their owners to nearly two-thirds the maximum permissible level for exposure of hands and forearms. According to Haybittle, one watch, having an estimated radium content of 2.2 u<c, recorded on a film placed Letters Radioactive Wrist Watches J. L. Haybittle, of the Radiotherapeutic Center at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, England, has reported in Nature (17 May 1958) that some luminous-dial wrist watches contain sufficient radium to subject their owners to nearly two-thirds the maximum permissible level for exposure of hands and forearms. According to Haybittle, one watch, having an estimated radium content of 2.2 u<c, recorded on a film placed Letters Radioactive Wrist Watches