LABORATORY TESTING AND EVALUATION OF MICROWAVE OVENS
Not an original health-effects study
Stephen W. Smith, James W. Nicolls, Robert L. Moore, Walter E. Gundaker · 1970
Researchers tested 14 microwave ovens for radiation leakage with the door closed, opening, and fully open with interlocks defeated.
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Twelve ovens were on the U.S. market and two were prototypes, tested from August 1968 to April 1970. Leakage was measured at two inches from the oven surface using a Narda 8100 survey meter. Power density was also recorded at 30 centimeters with the door fully open and interlocks defeated. The data were not collected according to the proposed standard procedures, so comparison with that standard was not justified.
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Stephen W. Smith, James W. Nicolls, Robert L. Moore, Walter E. Gundaker (1970). LABORATORY TESTING AND EVALUATION OF MICROWAVE OVENS.
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@article{laboratory_testing_and_evaluation_of_microwave_ovens_g6537,
author = {Stephen W. Smith and James W. Nicolls and Robert L. Moore and Walter E. Gundaker},
title = {LABORATORY TESTING AND EVALUATION OF MICROWAVE OVENS},
year = {1970},
}No DOI on file for this study.
Quick Questions About This Study
Fourteen ovens were tested, twelve from the U.S. market and two prototypes not yet available.
Leakage was measured with the door closed, while opening, and fully open with interlocks defeated.
Personnel could not enter fields above 10 mW/cm2 and eye exposure was limited to 1 mW/cm2. Tests above 100 mW/cm2 required two attendants in an anechoic chamber.