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australia nuclear easter egg hunt?
voltsandjolts:
--- Quote from: Halcyon on January 28, 2023, 01:24:58 pm ---This seems highly extraordinary.
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Something smells off to me.
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Nope.
This is very ordinary, happens more often than you think.
I work in an industry that uses (very) radioactive sources as a matter of course, transported by road on daily basis. I've heard the stories first hand.
coppercone2:
do you transport them so a loose screw = miniature radioactive capsule rolling off into a sewer drain ?
I feel like this should take a truck roll over
Halcyon:
--- Quote from: voltsandjolts on January 28, 2023, 05:49:25 pm ---
--- Quote from: Halcyon on January 28, 2023, 01:24:58 pm ---This seems highly extraordinary.
...
Something smells off to me.
--- End quote ---
Nope.
This is very ordinary, happens more often than you think.
I work in an industry that uses (very) radioactive sources as a matter of course, transported by road on daily basis. I've heard the stories first hand.
--- End quote ---
Then how is it possible like something like that to just be "lost"? Why wasn't it in a big container that's easy to see and handle?
daqq:
Another article: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-27/radioactive-capsule-lost-in-wa-emergency-public-health-warning/101901472
So halflife of 30 years, means Cs-137, picture of capsule included, some additional details present as well: 10 x ray equivalent at one meter distance, so fairly hot.
Though I think that they could find with the right tools - a gamma ray spectrometer driven over the whole route, see in which area there was a peak, narrow down the area...
coppercone2:
--- Quote from: Halcyon on January 28, 2023, 09:58:15 pm ---
--- Quote from: voltsandjolts on January 28, 2023, 05:49:25 pm ---
--- Quote from: Halcyon on January 28, 2023, 01:24:58 pm ---This seems highly extraordinary.
...
Something smells off to me.
--- End quote ---
Nope.
This is very ordinary, happens more often than you think.
I work in an industry that uses (very) radioactive sources as a matter of course, transported by road on daily basis. I've heard the stories first hand.
--- End quote ---
Then how is it possible like something like that to just be "lost"? Why wasn't it in a big container that's easy to see and handle?
--- End quote ---
because we are not making any money if we don't get this done faster and cheaper, stop being a worry wart (said on phone call by project manager originating from 450$ steak house)
On one hand someone forgot to check torque or something, on the other hand, the systems in place for containment are horribly inadequate
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