Hi from northern Italy
Posted: 19 Sep 2020, 21:07
Good day everybody,
I'm Philip, I guess the last (1996) Nuclear Engineer from the University of Bologna (Italy) before the course name was changed to Energetic Engineering LOL.
Being italian nuclear industry ostracized I recycled first into composite materials technology and non destructive testing equipment, then to high security (locks & bio metrics) and finally to photonics, in particular distributed fiber optic sensors, the filed where I am still working.
My "nuclear" passion started at 6 from collecting minerals, since I was suggested to restrict the focus of my stone collections and I thought that U and Th minerals are few enough to achieve the complete collection one day. Needing to check the stones I built my first GM counter kit at 8, and I've been fascinated by the possibility od seeing the invisible since that moment.
I owe quite a bunch of "cold war" museum pieces and I am interested also in spectroscopy detectors. I've some Si schottky diodes for alpha, few NaI, CsI, LiI integral lines, some He3 and BF3 neutron counters and I used to have a couple of HPGe but then I sold them to the local faculty of radio-chemistry when their pop-tops died years ago, so I don't have to look after the LN2 level every morning.
Recently I got some CZTs and I found this forum while looking for info on them, and ... I was hooked up instantly.
Have fun everybody! (especially if above the ultra violet)
I'm Philip, I guess the last (1996) Nuclear Engineer from the University of Bologna (Italy) before the course name was changed to Energetic Engineering LOL.
Being italian nuclear industry ostracized I recycled first into composite materials technology and non destructive testing equipment, then to high security (locks & bio metrics) and finally to photonics, in particular distributed fiber optic sensors, the filed where I am still working.
My "nuclear" passion started at 6 from collecting minerals, since I was suggested to restrict the focus of my stone collections and I thought that U and Th minerals are few enough to achieve the complete collection one day. Needing to check the stones I built my first GM counter kit at 8, and I've been fascinated by the possibility od seeing the invisible since that moment.
I owe quite a bunch of "cold war" museum pieces and I am interested also in spectroscopy detectors. I've some Si schottky diodes for alpha, few NaI, CsI, LiI integral lines, some He3 and BF3 neutron counters and I used to have a couple of HPGe but then I sold them to the local faculty of radio-chemistry when their pop-tops died years ago, so I don't have to look after the LN2 level every morning.
Recently I got some CZTs and I found this forum while looking for info on them, and ... I was hooked up instantly.
Have fun everybody! (especially if above the ultra violet)
