USPS: glowing by leaps and bounds

[Tim May]

On Wednesday, October 24, 2001, at 10:14 AM, Sampo Syreeni wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, David Honig wrote:
>
>> Enough rads to sterilize?  Forget film.
>
> What do you suppose happens to disks and other magnetic media at these
> flux levels?


Nothing. Magnetic oxides and metallic thin films are not affected by 
mere few tens of kilorads, or even by megarads.

Ionizing radiation has no particular first order effect on such films.

There is much more I can write here, but won't.


--Tim May
"Ben Franklin warned us that those who would trade liberty for a little 
bit of temporary security deserve neither. This is the path we are now 
racing down, with American flags fluttering."-- Tim May, on events 
following 9/11/2001