Hello Gordon.

> The fluoresent layer is for high energy stuff.  If I remember my
> physics right the higher the energy of the radiation the less
> likelihood of it exposing the film.

  In a sense, which is why I have dwelt on the need to use only the
"Softest" X-rays if one was to try and erase a OTP chip.

> Soft X-rays don't need help.

  *Extremely* soft ones may not need *much*, but nearly all will benefit
by a factor of more than ten (an order of magnitude) from a ZnS plate
which catches the (most) X-rays the (thin!) emulsion won't.

> Would you expound on that some.

  Yes, I meant learning from experience, i.e., putting oneself in risky
situations.

> I was taught safety from before I can remember. I was tuned loose on
> my own with a shot gun when I was 12 and a rifle when I was 13.

  Hey, that's a hot topic currently, isn't it?

> But there is no way to make safe dynamite.

  My father quotes the explosives instructor hitting a (new) stick of
dynamite with a hammer to demonstrate how safe it was.  Old stock is a
different matter.  Perhaps you've had some bad experiences.

> Damn right I am not politicly correct.

  One doesn't expect to find "Politically correct" people on this list
does one?  I have said before that few if any list-members would have an
IQ below 105.

  Cheers,
        Paul B.