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This also happened in Ukraine. The capsule was lost in a gravel pit and ended up being built into the wall of an apartment and several people died as a result.
by galleywest200 4y ago
This also happened in Ukraine. The capsule was lost in a gravel pit and ended up being built into the wall of an apartment and several people died as a result.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kramatorsk_radiological_accident?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kramatorsk_radiological_accide...
- JoeAltmaier 4y agoNot really a regionally significant nuclear accident then. About the same as a gas leak?
- ChuckNorris89 4y agoA gas leak will either blow you up or kills you quicker and can be identified and fixed quickly but radiation kills you slowly, making identification of the cause very tricky for authorities.
- DonHopkins 4y agoOr you end up raising a family of mutants.
- dehrmann 4y ago/goes to eat a Rio Red grapefruit.
- dehrmann 4y agoRemember this? 8 deaths. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Bruno_pipeline_explosion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Bruno_pipeline_explosion
- aqme28 4y ago“A few people here may die” is a relatively serious nuclear accident. Worse than three-mile island at least.
- Waterluvian 4y agoI don’t disagree. But I wonder if the cost to recovering this pellet would save more lives spent in another way.
- dsfyu404ed 4y agoA few grand to dig it out of a wall? A few hundo to slap some lead shielding over it (it is an X-ray source after all)? In any case the primary expense is going to be one of paying off all the people to get the right approvals. Crunching the numbers on how to safely rectify it and actually going through those actions will be dirt cheap compared to getting someone with the "right credentials" to tell the government, the insurers and whoever else that your obvious solution any highschooler can crunch the numbers on is in fact acceptable
- Waterluvian 4y agoI think finding it is the expensive part.
- dsfyu404ed 4y agoIt pretty much broadcasts its location if you wave the right instrumentation around.
- Symbiote 4y agoYou "just" need to wave that instrument over 1400km of highway, potentially with a 100m+ width if the capsule has been kicked some distance away by a truck tyre.
- Waterluvian 4y agoI’m trying to imagine the scale of this. I guess it depends on how close you have to be to pick up the signal. And how many false signals there might be.
- throwanem 4y agoNot to rehash my other comment, but depending on the nature of the source it might become regionally significant if somebody screws up bad enough.