How to Make the 20-cent Fallout Meter

Technical Report · Wed May 17 00:00:00 EDT 2017

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1358152· OSTI ID:1358152

Meade, Roger Allen ^[1]; Rodriguez, Serena R. ^[1]; Alvarez, Luis ^[1]

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1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Nobel Prize winner Luis Alvarez published an article on how to build a homemade fallout meter in the November 12, 1961, issue of the Sunday supplement This Week Magazine. A yellowed copy of the article was recently found in the files of the Radiochemistry Group, C-NR, and is reproduced below in its original form.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC52-06NA25396
• OSTI ID: 1358152
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-17-24050
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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