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In Reply to: Can tubes be radioactive? posted by woffeldjur on October 28, 2014 at 04:23:05:
Having had professional experience with scrap metal and recycling, as well as ecological legal requirements (governing laws), I would regard as highly unlikely that one might be able to buy (OK, scams are possible) and more importantly have the goods delivered to ANY "civilized" country in the world (no offence intended), and particularly in Europe: I guess the US/Canada part of the world is at least as restrictive and vigilant.
The first issue would be decommissioned military stuff: even if allowed for trade at all, it would pass under several radiation detectors in several points along the way, and it is almost unbelievable it might reach the final destination if radioactive.
People in the West seem to be still fascinated with Soviet or Russian military stuff (the less knowledge and experience, the more one is prone to fascination) so many items are marketed as decommissioned "from a sub" or similarly. In reality, what one can buy might eventually be decommissioned from some military warehouse, where it laid dormant for decades, or is even NOS items.
Some stuff is even misrepresented as being military or having had some role - like GM70 tubes having been used in Soviet tanks (?!?) or being military items built like a tank. I've seen a fair quantity of those with perfect getters (intact vacuum, never used) and broken filaments due to mishandling: hardly anything to use in a tank!
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