BajaXJ92
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- Prescott, AZ
VERY interesting reading w/ pics....
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Urban Redneck
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- Arlington Heights, IL
I saw this a few weeks ago. Holy crap! Don't know if I would risk it to ride like that, but maybe just once. But, with my luck, I'd flat or run out of gogo juice and been screwed!
CaptTrev
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- Long Island
wow...
thank you for posting that...
it really makes you think..........
thank you for posting that...
it really makes you think..........
jeepguy97
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- clearfield, pa
We need to buy it and turn it into an off-road park. Then when we get home our Cherokees will glow red. Seriously though that was fascinating.
MuddinXJ
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- Greenwood, IN
yea i didnt exactly enjoy readin that but it gave me plenty to think about this evening
cm97xj
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- pennsylvania
thats some scary stuff....damn good read though, thanx
staticrevolution
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- Beaverton, OR
Indeed, thank you for posting that.
Alan
Alan
LBEXJ
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- Parke County, Indiana
Sad ... very sad ... and the potential result of all of us living with this same kind of stupidity.
Les
Les
Danno
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that's a REALLY facinating story! The girl obviously has been educated in the west for awhile. Her English writing skills are excellent. I'd be really worried about thyroid cancer in her in about 10 years. Even in low doses the radiation is still accumulative. Also it tends to collect in areas of the body such as the thyroid.
This story reminds me of the "accident" that happened years ago at the small university in California that my father worked at. At the time he was chairman of the Physics Dept. One of his professors was giving a summer class. One of the projects was to build a cloud chamber so that radioactive particles could be somewhat visually observed, indirectly. Without going thru the physics involved....the chamber contained a large sewing needle that had a spot of glue put on the end and then dipped in Radium dust. At some point the bottle got knocked over and the dust spilled on the floor. Whoever was using it didn't tell anybody and just picked it up and screwed the lid back down. Since the department had a small nuclear reactor, the facility was inspected by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission every year. (there were a number of reactors in use by universities back in the 50's and 60's ) The inspector discovered that the basement floor was "hot". He and my father had to suit up and then scrub the whole basement floor with a wash that removed the radioactive Radium dust. Shit, we all had been breathing that stuff for three months! Dad swore us all to secrecy but since all the people involved are now dead (old age, mostly) except me.......
The half-life of Radium is 1622 years+-13 years. :wow: :wow:
In the old days when clocks still had glow in the dark Radium dials, the workers used to manually dipped the clock hands in the dust as part of the manufacturing process. They say that the ones that first licked the dial and then dipped it into the Radium...well, their graves are still REALLY radioactive.
This story reminds me of the "accident" that happened years ago at the small university in California that my father worked at. At the time he was chairman of the Physics Dept. One of his professors was giving a summer class. One of the projects was to build a cloud chamber so that radioactive particles could be somewhat visually observed, indirectly. Without going thru the physics involved....the chamber contained a large sewing needle that had a spot of glue put on the end and then dipped in Radium dust. At some point the bottle got knocked over and the dust spilled on the floor. Whoever was using it didn't tell anybody and just picked it up and screwed the lid back down. Since the department had a small nuclear reactor, the facility was inspected by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission every year. (there were a number of reactors in use by universities back in the 50's and 60's ) The inspector discovered that the basement floor was "hot". He and my father had to suit up and then scrub the whole basement floor with a wash that removed the radioactive Radium dust. Shit, we all had been breathing that stuff for three months! Dad swore us all to secrecy but since all the people involved are now dead (old age, mostly) except me.......
The half-life of Radium is 1622 years+-13 years. :wow: :wow:
In the old days when clocks still had glow in the dark Radium dials, the workers used to manually dipped the clock hands in the dust as part of the manufacturing process. They say that the ones that first licked the dial and then dipped it into the Radium...well, their graves are still REALLY radioactive.
AndyS
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My wife was visiting Russia as part of her high school's Russian language class trip during the spring of 1986. Thanks to the government's excellent communication and propeganda machine, the superb Russian air traffic control made absolutely no effort to redirect their flight, and the airplane that they were flying in passed directly over Chernobyl (and subsequently through the radioactive debris cloud) approximately 6 hours after the disaster, at relatively low altitude (<10,000 feet).
They kept her and the other 15 or so students in Kiev (I think it was...) for almost 3 1/2 weeks for observation while not telling them anything about the disaster, nor allowing any of them to call out of the country. The kept them quarantined for another month after reluctantly informing them of the disaster, although by then the rumour had already reached them.
She still gets thyroid exams regularly....
They kept her and the other 15 or so students in Kiev (I think it was...) for almost 3 1/2 weeks for observation while not telling them anything about the disaster, nor allowing any of them to call out of the country. The kept them quarantined for another month after reluctantly informing them of the disaster, although by then the rumour had already reached them.
She still gets thyroid exams regularly....
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BajaCherokee92 said:
OK lets all fight somewhere else and get this back on topic to some good nuclear disaster stuff!
Or happy ole Mt St Helens, the Korean's ANFO railroad experiment, or who killed more Indians than General Custer?
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Danno said:
Anyone ever seen that Discovery Channel spot on Ottawa, IL? Used to be a Radium plant there back in the 50s. Laura's family is from there she has a copy of it on VHS. Some of those people are(were) in BAD shape!
Lou
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woody said:
Union Carbide killed more Indians than Custer !
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- NC Sandhills
Lou said:
DING! They sure did
Industrial disasters aren't usually just an accident... it's a systemic thing. I'm more comfortable with them when they happen on the other hemisphere. :dunno:
