[21twelve]

I have a bunch of smoke detectors piled up - I can’t just throw them away, I’m supposed to take them to the “Haz Waste Day” - but of course every year I forget. (With a big pile of flurescent tubes sitting nearby). I hope I don’t get a SWAT team at my door.

I was at a site that did testing of radiation detection systems. I kept seeing a guy get into his own car with a DIXIE cup and drive around, then go back into the building, and repeat all day long.

I finally had to ask what he was up to. (He’s got the Dixie cup on the dash of this Honda Civic, street clothes, etc.)

“Oh - I’m just calibrating the detection levels of the radiation sensors.”

Obviously those sensors can detect a VERY low dose.

[mad_as_he$$]

I have read that they are very sensitive. As far as your stock pile goes you could wind up with a “visit” depending on your location.
About 12 years ago I sent a process fume burning oven to the scrap yard on a flatbed truck. It tripped the radiation alarm at the scrap yard. Next thing I know I am ass deep in Feds wanting to know where I got the radioactive material. It took the County air monitoring guy to splain the mechanism that causes the radiation accumulation and that the oven had been properly licensed for years.