“...generates less radiation than the human body...”
I didn’t realize the human body generates GAMMA radiation, which is what I thought had saturated the nuclear waste materials this thing uses. You know— the type of radiation that passes through everything but lead and mutates cells, causing cancer and radiation sickness and such. Somebody needs to explain to me how these things are safe.
You get too much Gamma radiation your turn green and bulky every time you get angry.
Every human body has radioactive potassium 40 in it from ingested or inhaled potassium. K40 undergoes both types of beta decay and one of the decay chains has a neutrino and a 1.460 MEv gamma ray emitted. For grins take a Geiger counter and find someone who regularly smokes. Take said counter turn up the audio volume again for grins and put the sensor up to where their lungs are you will be absolutely shocked the number of clicks you will hear each and every one is a gamma ray striking the gas in the tube then remember that gammas are emitted in a 360 degree angle and the sensor is only detecting a tiny fraction of those emitted. I do this experiment with undergraduates all the time when we do our rock unit on naturally occuring radioactive materials aka NORMs. I always ask for a smoker as smoke is loaded with K40 particulates it’s one of the reasons smoking causes cancer the particulates get trapped deep in the lungs irradiating from that day forward.
Read the article. This is harvested carbon-14, which undergoes beta decay, NOT gamma. It releases an anti-neutrino, which by definition interacts with nothing, and an electron, which is captured by the carbon-12 shielding to produce electricity.
All of the other hot constituents of the waste are removed in the process of making the diamond particles.
A small percentage of the carbon in your body is carbon-14.