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Building on an earlier post about DIY storage, and very much proof of concept. Two boxes for NORM storage, 12” x 6” x 3” and 14”x 9.5” x 3.5”

3/4” wood used to frame the sides and bottom with a 1/3” piece of plywood for the lid. 1/8” inch lead sheet next, wrapped in aluminum foil tape. 1/8” plywood is next with three to four layers of copper foil tape on the outside to mitigate Bremsstrahlung.

A pice of 1/8” lead sheet will be affixed to the lid with ideally a 1/4” acrylic block cup to the final opening.

NORM specimens as follows:

Threadgoldite - 15K cpm

Uranosilite: 525 cpm

Chernikovite: 3,400 cpm

Strelkinite: 180 cpm

Autunite: 180,000 cpm

Curienite: 54,000 cpm

Sklowdowskite: 45,000 cpm

At roughly 30” distance my GQ GMC-600 records negligible over background radiation in the larger box, moved to smaller box.

Any and all questions and suggestions are welcome!

If O’Hare was healthy enough to continue all 5 seasons, would we have had a similar subplot to the Icarus? Would Catherine Sakai have been hired by IPX in Season 2 to explore Z’ha’Dum, disappear and returned to Babylon 5 in Seaosn 3 as a Shadow agent?

Did the Vorlons know the Icarus was going to land on Z’ha’Dum? If they didn’t, how could they show Sheridan that vision (unless it was simply propaganda to bend Sheridan to their side).