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Answer to Question #5844 Submitted to "Ask the Experts"Category: Historical Issues/Applications The following question was answered by an expert in the appropriate field: Q
I found a 1930s Pickard (Waite) fluoroscopy machine that has a very heavy lead box (gears for moveable arm) and wonder if there could be any radioactive material to be concerned about?
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Quite a historical item you have there! Not to worry—x-ray machines (and certainly 1930s models!) do not contain radioactive material. I suspect the lead box may have served as a counterweight.
Ron Kathren, CHP
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