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>“Not surprisingly, the occupiers received significant doses of radiation and panicked at the first sign of illness. And it showed up very quickly.” A dose whi
by trhway 5y ago
>“Not surprisingly, the occupiers received significant doses of radiation and panicked at the first sign of illness. And it showed up very quickly.”
A dose which shows quickly is usually pretty high, in the ballpark of lethal.
>Local reports suggest that seven buses with the zapped troops arrived in Gomel early Thursday. Journalists on the ground have also reported “ghost buses” of dead soldiers being transported from Belarus to Russia under the cover of dark.
The soldiers there haven't used any PPE. Not even masks. One of the main danger there isn't gamma rays, it is ingestion and inhaling of alpha and beta emitters. By digging into and driving tanks over they disturbed and raised a lot of dust of all those layers of highly contaminated soil. The Red Forest where they did a lot of that digging and driving is where the massive amount of staff was dumped by wind right after leaving the blown reactor.
- detaro 5y agoAnd unlike the quote, I think that would actually be pretty surprising at that level. Getting lots of nasty from digging into your lungs is one thing, but what it causes are headlines in a few years about cancer rates, not Acute Radiation Sickness. For that, you need to find some seriously hot stuff.
- trhway 5y agoThe Russian forces there didn't have dosimeters. And the Red Forest is really where the stuff was falling right out of the reactor. I think even just undisturbed background level there is about several milli-R/hr. So, in a month you'd get several Roentgen. From some sources - the levels once disturbed would shoot to the scale of 100-200 milli-R/hr. That is 100-200 R/month. Those level do produce ARS with some deaths.