Jokes aside is this what they use for medical stuff? Don’t remember where I heard it but iirc radioactive cobalt is used for radiation oncology or imaging. Something about it having a short half life by design and they have to be replaced often.
Looks like it says “Co-60” (could be 66 but I really doubt it), but nowadays Cobalt-60 isn’t really used for diagnostics. Could be an old source; the half-life is around 5 years so rule-of-thumb would be 40 years to be fully depleted. Main use these days is for sterilizing materials I think.
E: wikipedia says medical sources that were used were ~2cm wide so, this looks like an old medical source.
Jokes aside is this what they use for medical stuff? Don’t remember where I heard it but iirc radioactive cobalt is used for radiation oncology or imaging. Something about it having a short half life by design and they have to be replaced often.
Looks like it says “Co-60” (could be 66 but I really doubt it), but nowadays Cobalt-60 isn’t really used for diagnostics. Could be an old source; the half-life is around 5 years so rule-of-thumb would be 40 years to be fully depleted. Main use these days is for sterilizing materials I think.
E: wikipedia says medical sources that were used were ~2cm wide so, this looks like an old medical source.