General Information

Serial #

N/A

Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

METAL AND SYNTHETIC

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

35.5 cm

Width

5.0 cm

Height

N/A

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Physics

Category

Atomic & nuclear

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Marsland

Country

Canada

State/Province

Ontario

City

Kitchener

Context

Country

Canada

State/Province

Ontario

Period

PROBABLY USED IN THE LATE 1960S

Canada

THIS DEVICE WAS DESIGNED BY CRNL AS PART OF THE PROGRAM AT THE CHALK RIVER NUCLEAR LABORATORIES TO RESPOND TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE NRX AND NRU HIGH POWER RESEARCH REACTORS & ASSOCIATED RADIATION FACILITIES AT CHALK RIVER, ONTARIO [REF 2].

Function

USED TO DETECT THE PRESENCE OF ALPHA PARTICLES.

Technical

THIS IS THE 2ND IN A SERIES OF ALPHA MONITORS DEVELOPED BY A.E.C.L. PRECEDED BY MODEL 118 [980208] & FOLLOWED BY MODEL 5236 [980206]/ IT IS NOT AS COMPLETE AS MODEL 5236 AS IT WOULD HAVE TO BE ATTACHED TO AN EXTERNAL SPEAKER IN ORDER FORTHE SIGNALS TO BE HEARD.

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

STAMPED ON BODY: 'ALPHA MONITOR/ AEP 2135 SERIAL NO./ MANUFACTURED BY/ MARSLAND ENGINEERING LTD./ KITCHENER CANADA'/ HANDWRITTEN ON LABEL: 'Alpha Monitor 2135/ 2nd in series (1966)/ replaced the old 118'

Missing

APPEARS COMPLETE From CA of 12/03/2001 by Matthew Bruce: No - appears complete

Finish

LACQUERED FINISH; BLACK PRINTING

Decoration

N/A