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Would the uranium marbles be at all likely to cause bit errors? Would this decrease the lifespan of the system?
by vermilingua 7y ago
Would the uranium marbles be at all likely to cause bit errors? Would this decrease the lifespan of the system?
- tyingq 7y agoSome numbers for uranium glass: https://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/consumer%20products/vaseline.htm https://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/consumer%20products/vase... Doesn't answer your question, but might be a start.
- nategri 7y agoAuthor here. Even though its proximity puts it pretty far above background, the marbles are still a fairly weak source, so from the "electronics logic longevity" side it's not something I've really thought about. But the Geiger-Muller tube does have a finite (though very large) number of events it can record, so I cut the voltage to it when the device is in "clock mode" and not functioning as an RNG.