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lIllllIiiiiLLLLiiiiIIIIll said:
Can you delve into "atomically bouncy" a bit more? Fascinated by your narrative of it so far, but not sure what makes plutonium so special yet.

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Yeah so, there are two types of radioactive hazards. Radiation (The energy bit that makes your detectors go click, be it alpha, beta, gamma, ect) and contamination, which CREATES the radiation. Microscopic particles of plutonium, ect.

Alpha, not a problem, can't get through skin. Beta.... cant get through glass. Gamma, Xray, all you can do is minimize exposure. But contamination is 100% direct hit, alpha, gamma, beta, hell, heavy metal poisoning. 100% direct full body dose.

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The Chernobyl Lads here aren't wearing this to protect themselves from Gamma or Alpha (face gear helps with beta), it's all contamination. And contamination behaves. These guys would probably be fine (if it wasn't for the fact they were at ground zero of fucking Chernobyl).

When you suit up for nuclear, you normally don't go through a big set up. It's literally a rope you step over. And when you leave, you strip out of your suit, step through a machine, and then go on your way. Because it's just heavy metal. It's like an oily residue at worse. If you get a positive hit they will basically run tape on you.

But Plutonium, at least plutonium used for RTGS, doesn't work like that. It spreads. It seems like little bits of it pop off and pop off again, on an atomic level. Anything it can get on it will. There are reports of it crossing the line overnight. Going down corridors. Anything it claimed, RadCon was never able to reclaim. So the line gets forced back, again, and again, and again.

Nuclear sites will "grout" a facility for two reasons. The first is that it is too old and admin is concerned the next generation will try to keep using it. The second is because shit got fucked. Anywhere 238 is processed usually gets grouted.

So

Why is it different? (I think) Because it's half life is slightly over that of tritium. 239, nuclear bomb stuff, has a half life of 24000 years or something. 238 has a half life of... like 80? So you have a very large, very heavy ball of nuclear material, and it decays to half in a single life time.

There was an incident at Los Alamos like 20 years ago where a leaky pipe that got pressurized dumped, through a finger tight valve, about 600 years worth of routine radiation on a room full of workers in the time it takes to leave the room. Compare that to normal RADcon which is just crossing the line.

Oh yeah, uh, the funny. Uh. what do you call someone drinking on the job at a rad site?

An ambulance
Cause Chelation agents

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