{"id":1847,"date":"2023-06-21T09:16:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T01:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/?p=1847"},"modified":"2025-12-22T06:03:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T22:03:51","slug":"safe-handling-and-storage-of-radioactive-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/safe-handling-and-storage-of-radioactive-equipment\/","title":{"rendered":"Safe Handling and Storage of Radioactive Equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Perth Scientific and Haines supply a small cylinder that is suitable for storing small radioactive sources.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/li><li>For larger radioactive sources, members reported buying a lead sheet from Bunnings which was used to line a steel toolbox. As an added precaution the radioactive sources can be\u00a0<\/li><li>Radiation gloves are not required for the low level of radiation used in schools.\u00a0Tongs at least 30 cm long are recommended.<\/li><li>Several schools mentioned they no longer use radioactive sources.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perth Scientific and Haines supply a small cylinder that is suitable for storing small radioactive sources.\u00a0 \u00a0 For larger radioactive sources, members reported buying a lead sheet from Bunnings which was used to line a steel toolbox. As an added precaution the radioactive sources can be\u00a0 Radiation gloves are not required for the low level [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}