From: KPJ (kpj@sics.se)
Date: Mon Sep 20 1999 - 06:10:57 MDT
It appears as if Brian D Williams wrote:
|
|This of course is why you have a perforated metal screen in the
|front of your microwave oven, the wavelength is larger than the
|openings in the mesh, so they can't escape and you can safely watch
|so you don't burn your mac'n'cheese.....
I understand the mesh does not stop all the microwave radiation
from escaping. To fully stop the radiation, the oven would become
heavy, ugly, and the owner would not see the minced dead cow in there.
The governments have declared the radiation level harmless, so
one may ignore it unless one cranks up one's paranoia circuits.
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