Answer to Question #5110 Submitted to "Ask the Experts"

Category: Consumer Products — Electronic: TV, Computers

The following question was answered by an expert in the appropriate field:

If I were to measure the radiation coming from a television (TV), where would the greatest emissions come from?

Modern TVs emit very little, if any stray radiation, so you would be hard put to measure any x-ray emissions from the TV. However, in older TVs, the emission of x rays was associated with the high-voltage rectifier tube which may have been imperfectly aligned. In such cases, the x rays were primarily emitted through the bottom of the set or out the back. Even in these older "leaky" sets there was little or no x-ray emission at the front or through the top of the set.

Ron Kathren, CHP

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