a dosimeter rating on moss in Prypyat, inside the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone
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Actually alpha particles are the largest form of ionizing radiation particles … and can be stopped by a few cm of air alone. Direct exposure to your skin can be dangerous of course but they are by no means small as far as radioactive particles go , they are too large to penetrate even clothing. It is the particles that Give off the alpha decay that are dangerous if inhaled or swallowed like dust in the form of Plutonium uranium iodine ceasium cobalt the list goes on….
how much radiation is dangerous ?
I read somewhere that polonium-210 can be found in smokes but it comes from the insecticide that they spray on tobacco field, not from any major nuclear accidents.
Never said they weren’t harmful. Notice I mentioned the part about ‘ingest or inhale’. After 25 years in that environment most of the radioactive particles aren’t being freely distributed by the air anymore. As long as they don’t disturb the soil/vegetation the doses they’ll receive won’t have any impact on their health. My point was in reference to them not alpha radiation which deposit 20 times more energy within the body than beta or gamma emitters if consumed.
Noticed she said ’1 meter for here, it was just 150′. Clearly this indicates that the majority of the dose is attributed to alpha radiation which is stopped by air in that distance. It can’t even penetrate your skin. The environment is actually not that harmful(in the short term) unless they ingest or inhale radioactive particles.
Идиоты, теперь этот дозиметр можно выкинуть, т.к. горящая частица будет на корпусе – значит фонить будет всегда.
Later on they actually did use robots with special circuit protection
That aint a lot -.-
RUN FOR YOUR LIVES ALREADY
If a meter of air lowered the measured amount that much it must be mostly low-medium speed beta.
that is just right, durning the accident people received around 200 – 300 REM, this was so intense that most russian equitment stopped working in days. This is why the could not use robots to get graphite debrise away from roof and sent soilders to do it
2000 REM = dead 20 min
The counter shows 1,750 mili Roentgens/h
= 1750microRoentgens per hour(17,5microSievert per hour) normal Radiation is 10-20 microRoentgens/hour.
thats some scary shit…you know about the guy who was the main control guy in the plant and got something like 500 times the normal amount of radiation exposure and lived to be 80 haha?
If that is reading in REM it would be many years probably more like a couple of decades. Also if the whole area is emmiting that kind of Radiation, but likely not, as moss likes to take in the most. The grass and trees should read a little less but more than pavement.
Counts per second?
looked like 1.750 REM
whats enough to kill you, and for how long?
so bad
2000 in what units?