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Agreed, this case is bananas. If his "plutonium sample" is actually (probably) trinitite which you can just buy online [1], and if we assume an exposure of 1 u
by thadt 1y ago
Agreed, this case is bananas.
If his "plutonium sample" is actually (probably) trinitite which you can just buy online [1], and if we assume an exposure of 1 uR/hr at one inch[2], then convert that to BED (Banana Equivalent Dose[3] - that taken from the naturally occurring potassium-40 in bananas) that's (handwaving actual dose calculations) about, what, 1/10 of a banana?
[1] https://engineeredlabs.com/products/plutonium-element-cube-trinitite-sample https://engineeredlabs.com/products/plutonium-element-cube-t...
[2] https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/nuclear-weapons/trinity/trinitite.html https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/nuclea...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose
- perihelions 1y agoThe plutonium sample is reported to be something similar to this, https://carlwillis.wordpress.com/2017/02/07/analysis-of-soviet-smoke-detector-plutonium/ https://carlwillis.wordpress.com/2017/02/07/analysis-of-sovi... ("Analysis of Soviet smoke detector plutonium" (2017))
- wolfd 1y agoI believe it was this https://www.luciteria.com/element-cubes/plutonium-for-sale https://www.luciteria.com/element-cubes/plutonium-for-sale
- tgsovlerkhgsel 1y ago"This item is now discontinued." I wonder if this incident is the reason (or if it simply sold out in the aftermath).
- perihelions 1y agoRight, they're both Soviet ionization smoke detectors based on Pu-239. The Carl Willis blogpost is a teardown of one such similar item.
- thadt 1y agoOh, well if that's the case thats waaay more bananas. Like maybe around 4000. Nobody should be eating that many bananas.
- fsckboy 1y ago>Agreed, this case is bananas banana equivalent doses?