Didier Stevens

Saturday 31 October 2026

Quickpost: WT20 Welding Electrodes & Radiation

Filed under: Hardware — Didier Stevens @ 11:31

I found another material that I can buy freely and test with my Radiacode 103 radiation detector: WT20 Welding Electrodes.

These are tungsten welding electrodes with 2% thorium. Thorium is a little bit radioactive and shows up in the spectrum that I measured over a period of 3 hours with a Radiacode 103 device:


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