“I did my doctoral dissertation research at the Puerto Rican Nuclear Center in Mayaquez under the direction of Frank Lowman with AEC support.”
Then you should know how stupid it would be to be carrying out ‘nuclear’ experiments with no neutron monitoring ..... DUHHHH
“Did you really stayed in a Holiday Inn?”
Yes. Many times. I did my post graduate work under Dr. Nils Diaz. Director NRC.
I have seen done (and done myself) quite a few. You set up monitoring equipment for the type radiation you know you will be working with or likely to produce. Ge(Li), Si(Li) or NaI(Tl) if gammas and you want spectral data. GM tubes if not. GM/BF3 w. neutrons. And so on.
The folks at the SPAWAR lab have done probably hundreds of runs under these and similar conditions, so they can be reasonably sure that the maximum neutron flux will be within safety limits with data from earlier work.
The article being discussed concerns the suppression of funding and publication of break-through research, or anything else, that wobbles the existing concepts held by the higher panjandrums in any scientific field.
What are your opinions on Anthropogenic Global Warming?