Latvian firewood

[GarethM]

That's why I asked if it's alpha or beta, alpha is pretty much stopped by a sheet of paper or the plastic wrapper.

 

Everything is radioactive to a greater or less extent. Providing your not licking radium clock dials or doing a radioactive boyscout, it's all relative.

 

[roys]

2 hours ago, GarethM said:

or doing a radioactive boyscout, it's all relative.

 

Is that in ref to the 100’s of smoke detectors he was stripping down in his shed?

[GarethM]

1000s if memory serves, I do have the book somewhere on my bookshelf.

Edited October 26, 2022 by GarethM

[openspaceman]

3 hours ago, GarethM said:

That's why I asked if it's alpha or beta, alpha is pretty much stopped by a sheet of paper or the plastic wrapper.

 

Everything is radioactive to a greater or less extent. Providing your not licking radium clock dials or doing a radioactive boyscout, it's all relative.

 

Caesium137 and strontium90 are significant sources resulting from  uranium235 fission and they emit high energy electrons (beta particles), even those that decay with helium nuclei (alpha particles) are still a danger when the dust is inhaled, then depending on the half life (strontium90 about 25 years) they continue to emit the particles inside you or the sheep and that does the damage.

[Sviatoslav Tulin]

Soon we will have our own radioactive firewood, just saying🔜

[GarethM]

It'll never happen, the first two were both the first and the very last used in anger.

 

To keep saying he'll nuke someone is just media hype. It will never ever happen, MAD was and is a glorified mine is bigger than yours game to keep people spending money on weapons whilst at the same time keeping they're electorate quiet.

 

 

[Drex2001]

Bought the Geiger counter on Amazon, It’s Gmc320 plus, 

[Stubby]

I never realised procurement of  fire wood was so involved and complex . I have a stove , and a splitter  . That's all . 🙂

[dan blocker]

On 07/11/2022 at 18:05, Stubby said:

I never realised procurement of  fire wood was so involved and complex . I have a stove , and a splitter  . That's all . 🙂

Is that an atom splitter or something bigger🤔

[wills-mill]

On 25/10/2022 at 20:57, Doug Tait said:

The sale of Welsh and Cumbrian sheep in the UK was restricted for a long time afterwards, probably 20 years, due to them grazing on land contaminated by the rain.

I'm always intrigued that the UK restrictions on sheep just happened to be in the areas adjoining the UK's own nuclear fuel processing facilities and the big manky power station that had various catastrophes over the preceding decades. Very handy.