Radioactive capsule missing in WA
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Lame, so we won't get another vidya like this?
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I forgot the 'Jeet with the time stamp at the end. I can only imagine the "soup /diy/..." post for this.
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Great. A literal death pellet is loose. I hope it steers clear of your water supply Auzzies, or else you're screwed.
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Hey guys, nuclear retard here. The source is in that sweet spot where it could be dangerous to a person if they threw it in their pocket, but not particularly easy to detect from a distance. This is why they're outsourcing it to the public. The Xray measurement is retarded because doses can vary depending on the type of xray performed. The other thing they say, "equivalent to a year's worth of exposure at 1 meter per hour," Makes me believe it's a 1 Curie source, which is equivalent to 320ish mR/hr at a meter for Cs-137. Not terrible. BUT if you were to put that in your pocket, using a half inch away from your dick as an estimate, you'd be receiving about 2000 R/hr. Not considering bottom surgery? Too bad.
Whole body you'd be recieving drastically less at about 1.5 R/hr using 1.5 feet from your pocket as the estimate for the center of your chest. You'd exceed your US annual federal exposure limit beyond 4 hours and you'd definitely be getting one of the blood cancers given a lot of your blood cells are produced in your pelvis in addition to your long bones.
The source itself is from a mining dredger for densiometric measurements, where they drill a hole in the ground, drop the source in the bottom, then read the dose rate at an angle to see how dense the ground they drilled into was.
Given this is a sealed source? Not an issue in that regard.
Whole body you'd be recieving drastically less at about 1.5 R/hr using 1.5 feet from your pocket as the estimate for the center of your chest. You'd exceed your US annual federal exposure limit beyond 4 hours and you'd definitely be getting one of the blood cancers given a lot of your blood cells are produced in your pelvis in addition to your long bones.
The source itself is from a mining dredger for densiometric measurements, where they drill a hole in the ground, drop the source in the bottom, then read the dose rate at an angle to see how dense the ground they drilled into was.
Cs-137's just the daughter product of Xe-137, which is a noble gas and why it can travel so far. Flies around in the wind as a gas, turns into a solid at room temperature particle then falls out of the sky. Hence fallout. Cs is bad in the environment because it bioaccumulates in things like moss, which gets eaten by the wildlife and gets absorbed into their bones. For most wildlife with like a 5-year lifespan in the wild this isn't a big deal, but people also eat the wildlife and we live long enough to see cancer become a problem. It's like mercury accumulation in fish, but radiologically instead of chemically going to fuck you up.
Given this is a sealed source? Not an issue in that regard.
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The Goiânia incident involved a sealed source.
It's all fun and games until you attack it in your workshop and let your 5-year-old daughter use the magic glowing powder as body paint.
(Spoiler alert: She died)
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You know, that's fair. Australia is why we have the fucking Rama Rama song. I wouldn't trust them not to eat it either.
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Just read the story of the accident. That's more than fucked up.
The capsule still hasn't been found. But Rio Tinto, the mining corporation, has apologized:
The capsule still hasn't been found. But Rio Tinto, the mining corporation, has apologized:
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Rio Tinto apologises for loss of tiny radioactive capsule in Australian outback
[1/3] A member of the Incident Management Team coordinates the search for a radioactive capsule that was lost in transit by a contractor hired by Rio Tinto, at the Emergency Services Complex in Cockburn, Australia, in this undated handout photo. Department of Fire and Emergency Services/Handout via REUTERS
MELBOURNE, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Rio Tinto Ltd (RIO.AX) apologised on Monday for the loss of a tiny radioactive capsule that has sparked a radiation alert across parts of the vast state of Western Australia. The radioactive capsule, believed to have fallen from a truck, was part of a gauge used to measure the density of iron ore feed which had been entrusted to a specialist contractor to transport. The loss may have occurred up to two weeks ago. Authorities are now grappling with the daunting task of searching along the truck's 1,400 kilometre (870 mile) journey from north of Newman - a small town in the remote Kimberley region - to a storage facility in the northeast suburbs of Perth - a distance longer than the length of Great Britain.
"That's like if you dangled a magnet over a haystack, it's going to give you more of a chance," he said. "If the source just happened to be lying in the middle of the road you might get lucky...It's quite radioactive so if you get close to it, it will stick out," he said. The gauge was picked up from Rio's Gudai-Darri mine site on Jan. 12. When it was unpacked for inspection on Jan. 25, the gauge was found broken apart, with one of four mounting bolts missing and screws from the gauge also gone.
Authorities suspect vibrations from the truck caused the screws and the bolt to come loose, and the radioactive capsule from the gauge fell out of the package and then out of a gap in the truck. We are taking this incident very seriously. We recognise this is clearly very concerning and are sorry for the alarm it has caused in the Western Australian community," Simon Trott, Rio's iron ore division chief, said in a statement. The silver capsule, 6 millimetres (mm) in diameter and 8 mm long, contains Caesium-137 which emits radiation equal to 10 X-rays per hour.
Authorities have recommended people stay at least five metres (16.5 feet) away as exposure could cause radiation burns or radiation sickness, though they add that the risk to the general community is relatively low. "From what I have read, if you drive past it, the risk is equivalent to an X-ray. But if you stand next to it or you handle it, it could be very dangerous," said Stuchbery. The state's emergency services department has established a hazard management team and has brought in specialised equipment that includes portable radiation survey meters to detect radiation levels across a 20-metre radius and which can be used from moving vehicles.
Trott said Rio had engaged a third-party contractor, with appropriate expertise and certification, to safely package and transport the gauge. "We have completed radiological surveys of all areas on site where the device had been, and surveyed roads within the mine site as well as the access road leading away from the Gudai-Darri mine site," he said, adding that Rio was also conducting its own investigation into how the loss occurred.
Analysts said that the transport of dangerous goods to and from mine sites was routine, adding that such incidents have been extremely rare and did not reflect poor safety standards on Rio's part. The incident is another headache for the mining giant following its 2020 destruction of two ancient and sacred rock shelters in the Pilbara region of Western Australia for an iron ore mine.
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The day before this incident the WHO updated the list of critical medicines to stockpile in the event of a radiological emergency
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Let's hope a religion-of-peace individual doesn't find this thing and turn it into a dirty bomb.
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Too late, Abbozilla is already making his way towards the nearest town.
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