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What to do with the Control Dosimeter sent with your Radiation Badges

Free Control Dosimeters are sent with shipments of radiation badges. Control dosimeters measure background radiation at your location and in the mail. In the ideal world, radiation badges are parked right next to the Control Dosimeters when not in use. That’s how it’s done at many Nuclear Stations, but even some of them let […]

Radiation Badge Exchange Time!

Hi Everyone! It is that time of the quarter when you should either already have, or soon get your radiation badge for the first quarter of 2017. You should receive them at least a few days before the end of the wear period on the badge (should have started in October of 2016). Be sure […]

Childrens International Summer Village (CISV)

Many of you may be aware of CISV, and I bet a lot of you know people who have attended one of their summer villages over the years. For over 50 years, this program has been sending a delegation of 11 year old kids from 12 countries around the world for a month long camp. […]

CHP Radiation Badges at 67,000 ft

CHP works with students all the time who are experimenting with radiation. Some of you may know of Taylor Wilson, who was 13 year olds when we worked with him as he built an accelerator in his basement and sustained a fusion reaction! This time we sent a dosimeter up on a weather balloon to […]