From this graph alone, it should be obvious to even the most casual observer, that the decay of -- for example -- Strontium 90 CANNOT BE explained by Hawking Emissions of any nature.
Posted on 08/22/2019 7:52:17 PM PDT by Windflier
At the levels of radiation now being found a Fukushima, a robot would be able to operate for less than two hours before it was destroyed. And Japan’s National Institute of Radiological Sciences said medical professionals had never even thought about encountering this level of radiation in their work.
The accident is enormous in its medical implications. Through future years, too long to contemplate, we will witness an epidemic of cancer as people inhale the radioactive elements, eat radioactive vegetables, rice and meat, and drink radioactive milk and teas. Year by year, decade through relentless decade, the radiation will build up yet modern medicine does not seem concerned.
New readings at Fukushima have recorded the highest radiation levels seen since the triple core meltdown that occurred in 2011. Readings inside the containment vessel of reactor no. 2 are as high as 530 Sieverts per hour, a dosage that would be fatal dozens and dozens of times over if a human were to be exposed to it. The previous high was a still very fatal rate of 73 Sieverts per hour.
The blazing radiation reading was taken near the entrance to the space just below the pressure vessel, which contains the reactor core. The highest radiation levels ever measured at Chernobyl were 300 Sieverts per hour; an incomprehensibly high dose which can kill a man almost instantly.
The new record at Fukushima of 530 Sieverts per hour is 70% higher than that of Chernobyl. The 530 Sievert reading was recorded some distance from the melted fuel, so in reality it could be 10 times higher than recorded, said Hideyuki Ban, co-director of Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center.
To put this in perspective, radiation is usually measured in thousandths of a Sievert, called millisieverts. For example, most people receive around 2.4 millisieverts per year from background radiation, or only 0.0002739726 per hour.
According to the Kyodo news agency, the institute estimates that exposure to one Sievert of radiation could lead to infertility, loss of hair and cataracts. One Sievert is enough to cause radiation sickness and nausea; 5 Sieverts would kill half those exposed to it within a month, and a single dose of 10 Sieverts would prove fatal within weeks.
The Radiation Dose Chart you posted contains information that often provides a distorted comparison of the kind of issues surrounding Chernobyl and Fukushima.
For example, dental xrays are external exposure of limited (seconds) duration after a patient approves the treatment.
Fukushima and Chernobyl do not limit dose, often result in ingestion/inhalation which irradiates bones and flesh continuously for years.
“eating a banana” is displayed on the chart, as if the harmless radiation from potassium in bananas has any comparison to radioactive Strontium, Cesium, Uranium or Plutonium released by Chernobyl and by Fukushima.
Involuntary ingestion and inhalation of radioactive wastes from Chernobyl/Fukushima incurring continuous exposure for years is displayed alongside voluntary exposure to medical xrays or naturally occurring background radiation - unfortunately, it’s an apples to oranges comparison.
No one could have foreseen an event like that tsunami.
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Actually, there were studies that projected the event and recommendations to mitigate damage should the event occur, some as recent as about a year prior to the tsunami.
And they built a massive (the largest at the time) reactor elsewhere in Japan on top of a sizable fault line. :(
Wikipedia:
Potassium-40 is a rare example of an isotope that undergoes both types of beta decay. In about 89.28% of events it decays to calcium-40 (40Ca) with emission of a beta particle (β−, an electron) with a maximum energy of 1.31 MeV and an antineutrino. In about 10.72% of events it decays to argon-40 (40Ar) by electron capture (EC), with the emission of a neutrino and then a 1.460 MeV gamma ray.
You don't think that beta particles or gamma rays emitted within your body can f*ck up your cellular metabolism or mess with your DNA?
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Dr. Mark Sircus, Ac., OMD, DM (P) (acupuncturist, doctor of oriental and pastoral medicine)
Don’t worry. I have it on good authority from many freepers that radiation is good for you.
Splitting the atom should have been illegal. This is exactly why. Not to mention the latest Russian incident with its expanding network of failed regional radiation detectors. Lol.
He’s a Q-tard. That should be enough information on his factual view of the world.
“You don’t think that beta particles or gamma rays emitted within your body can f*ck up your cellular metabolism or mess with your DNA?
Regards, “
Do you actually realize how small the dose of one banana is?
You are insane. “ Readings inside the containment vessel of reactor no. 2 are as high as 530 Sieverts per hour, a dosage that would be fatal dozens and dozens of times over if a human were to be exposed to it.”
I suppose you believe that 50,000 Scoville Units is sustainable, even at the rate of 40 A.U. per molar/Dalton mass. That is simply inconceivable, and you cannot produce the data to refute it. Not ONCE have you proven your case on Free Republic.
Uh oh. I had a dream the skies were colored weirdly and burning.
” 530 Sieverts per hour, a dosage that would be fatal dozens and dozens of times over if a human were to be exposed to it.””
Conventionally, the sievert is not used for high dose rates of radiation that produce deterministic effects, which is the severity of acute tissue damage that is certain to happen, such as acute radiation syndrome; these effects are compared to the physical quantity absorbed dose measured by the unit gray (Gy).[3]
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Ummm, actually they should have assumed that everything that did happen, would happen.
From this graph alone, it should be obvious to even the most casual observer, that the decay of -- for example -- Strontium 90 CANNOT BE explained by Hawking Emissions of any nature.
You are neglecting the spin.
“Not ONCE have you proven your case on Free Republic.”
You have never denied wanting to hit on RBG.
Why is radiation so damaging to a robot? Isn’t it possible to make a robot impervious to its effects?
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