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How radioactive is this exactly? I picked up one of these in a thrift store a few years ago and have just had it sitting in storage... Waiting to get my retro o
by johnnyApplePRNG 2y ago
How radioactive is this exactly? I picked up one of these in a thrift store a few years ago and have just had it sitting in storage... Waiting to get my retro office vibe once I find the space but I'm willing to let it go if it might kill me? Especially a slow agonizing radioactive based death? Are they seriously so radioactive that the military was afraid of them?
- Vecr 2y agoIt's not really. It's detectable so it theory it might trip something in a nuclear power plant, but unless you plan on grinding it up and inhaling it, it should stay in the casing.
- zdragnar 2y agoNuclear power plants, outside of the reaction chamber, are about the least radioactive places you can go. Given the materials they handle, they operate under such strict procedures to get as early warning as possible if anything is, in fact, leaking from containment.
- yencabulator 2y agoWhich sounds like the story in the article; a radiological survey to ensure safety found a false positive (as in it wasn't the contamination they were looking for). It makes perfect sense to eliminate the false positive from that setting, even if it is a normal everyday item.