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My thought as a health physicist is that the worrying part of buckets of uranium ore would be radon if it's in a poorly-ventilated or below ground area.
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cyberbug posted:It's not just the Jews. Some creative rule interpretation from Muslims in Indonesia and Malaysia I've heard: That's not "creative rule interpretation," that's just pretending that God can't see through walls to spot you doing the thing he specifically forbade. That's stupid and I'd imagine pisses him off. "Creative rule interpretation" is saying "well sure you aren't allowed to operate a machine on shabbos, but it doesn't say you can't stop operating a machine, does it? Well a button is a machine, certainly? So what if I made a telephone where all the buttons were always pressed why not, and you stick a pencil into a hole for each button to stop it from pressing, and that made the telephone make the call for you?" That's clever and makes God happy. Like, it's not like the Rabbis do the rules-lawyering just to make things easy on themselves. You aren't allowed to start a fire on the sabbath, but when electricity was new in the 1880s they could have easily said "well electricity isn't fire so obviously it's fine to use." But no, they carefully went through the literature and determined that electricity itself is not fire but electric sparks are, so you can't use any device that makes even tiny sparks, including electric motors or light switches. And so they invented pneumatically powered wheelchairs that run off scuba tanks and special non-sparking mercury switches and God was pleased. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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darthbob88 posted:2. Depleted uranium is really not radioactive, because it's been depleted of the radioactive U235. It's actually kinda useful as radiation shielding as a result. Except for neutron radiation. Please do not use U-238 as neutron radiation shielding.
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Feb 19, 2019 01:52
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I ain't afraid of no neutrons
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The Lone Badger posted:Except for neutron radiation. Please do not use U-238 as neutron radiation shielding. U238 makes fantastic neutron radiation shielding! It stops those neutrons in their tracks! The plutonium it transmutes into and the associated beta decays are also very well shielded, but might be outside the scope of the shielding at that point.
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If nu-trons are anything like the rest of the nu-<music> scene it should be shot into the sun.
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That is the way they do the spark plugs in a Triton engine without the special tool
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This meme appears broken. Where's the "what could possibly go wrong?" text?
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Feb 19, 2019 05:33
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grillster posted:That is the way they do the spark plugs in a Triton engine without the special tool Is the special tool dynamite?
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:The dust is poisonous as gently caress and does all kinds of wonky poo poo to critical enzymes in your body when absorbed through the lungs or digestive tract. And breathing in dust would qualify as 'under your skin' which is why it's seen as such a bad industrial hazard at mines and in industry. Uranium is also just toxic as a heavy metal, outside of the alpha radiation. In fact I think the heavy metal poisoning you get from ingesting it is far worse.
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Delpino posted:Was just coming here to post this. After they dumped the uranium in the mine they brought the buckets back 
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So that's how he's so good at holding that hotdog.
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Splicer posted:"Stephenson said they detected a low-level site within the building and traced it to the three buckets, which Park Service technicians had inexplicably returned to the building after dumping their contents." I don’t think that dumping in in an abandoned mine is really going to hurt anyone, but it sounds really bad and whatever the correct procedure for dealing with radioactive specimens is, that’s not it.
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This thread makes me want to buy a Geiger counter. I don't even understand how they work but pointing at things and finding out how radioactive they are sounds like a fun way to learn.
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Platystemon posted:I don’t think that dumping in in an abandoned mine is really going to hurt anyone, but it sounds really bad and whatever the correct procedure for dealing with radioactive specimens is, that’s not it. It was probably an abandoned Uranium mine. There's one right in the park, near Grand Canyon Village.
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Platystemon posted:I don’t think that dumping in in an abandoned mine is really going to hurt anyone, but it sounds really bad and whatever the correct procedure for dealing with radioactive specimens is, that’s not it. abandoned mines radioactive or not, are singlehandedly responsible for many a chemist's lifetime job security hope this helps
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thatguy posted:abandoned mines radioactive or not, are singlehandedly responsible for many a chemist's lifetime job security hope this helps many non-abandoned mines too my grandma worked her whole life as a chemist for a mine also it was a uranium mine and apparently they are extra bad because of the chemicals used
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Private Speech posted:many non-abandoned mines too
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Splicer posted:On a scale of hawkeye to hulk how super-powered are you Not very I'm afraid. She did once accidentally put concentrated lye into her mouth when she confused it with drinking water though, that was fairly OSHA. e: She had to be fed intravenously for a week to allow it to heal, but she's made a full recovery including taste. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 14:01 on Feb 19, 2019 |
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Feb 19, 2019 13:54
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Private Speech posted:Not very I'm afraid. Does she still swear after having a mouth
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Lurking Haro posted:Does she still swear after having a mouth She's a very polite person so maybe it did help. Occasionally casually racist when drunk, but hey what can you do she's really old.
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Fancy_Breakfast posted:This thread makes me want to buy a Geiger counter. Start with bananas
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BattleMaster posted:1.6 to 1 is a lot lower than many of the others but it's not super damning since it's still better than the 1 to 1 ratio in the general public. Oil is very nutritious I'll have you know. Anybody need a refinery designed? (I have never worked in my degree field since my senior internship at Dow)
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Splicer posted:"Stephenson said they detected a low-level site within the building and traced it to the three buckets, which Park Service technicians had inexplicably returned to the building after dumping their contents." Which means that they must have just dumped the contents out of the buckets probably creating a bunch of dust clouds    
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Missing Roundabout.
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*record scratch* Yup, that's me. You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation.
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Platystemon posted:I don’t think that dumping in in an abandoned mine is really going to hurt anyone, but it sounds really bad and whatever the correct procedure for dealing with radioactive specimens is, that’s not it. they're just putting it back where it came from though. northern arizona is full of uranium. there are creeks around the canyon that have warning signs saying not to drink from them because they're contaminated with radioisotopes. literally inside the grand canyon there are several of these tall cylindrical pillars:  they are like that because they're made of uranium ore (i.e. still sandstone, but with a higher than normal proportion of uranium) and the increased density makes them more resistant to erosion. they are mildly radioactive. tens of thousands of people walk by them every year. Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 20:08 on Feb 19, 2019 |
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:Even a chunk of pure uranium metal the size of your fist isn't appreciably radioactive. You're way more likely to suffer health consequences from breathing in the ore dust than you are sitting next to a paperweight made from it. That's good to know. My uncle gave me a little chunk of uranium ore in a glass jar. Told me not to leave it next to the TV because it might hurt the TV somehow. ??? One day I took it to show-and-tell at school and they freaked out and put it in the office until the end of the day. I suppose a glass jar could be dangerous around a bunch of rowdy kids.
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Sagebrush posted:they're just putting it back where it came from though. northern arizona is full of uranium. there are creeks around the canyon that have warning signs saying not to drink from them because they're contaminated with radioisotopes. So no mans sky is real, you do walk around and see huge dong shaped outcrops of special ore.
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So there's this thing called In-situ leaching. It's a common way of mining uranium. What you do is, you identify a uranium sandstone rollfront deposit and you set up a plant whereby you pump acid into the "upstream" part of the deposit, then recover the acid after it has leached out the metal "downstream". Radioactive acids, what could go wrong?
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Memento posted:So there's this thing called In-situ leaching. It's a common way of mining uranium. What you do is, you identify a uranium sandstone rollfront deposit and you set up a plant whereby you pump acid into the "upstream" part of the deposit, then recover the acid after it has leached out the metal "downstream". My highschool chemistry teacher told us about "future problems." One of them was a build up of acids in old abandon mines. I think this is a problem with all manner of mines though, the radioactive version sounds lovely.
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LifeSunDeath posted:My highschool chemistry teacher told us about "future problems." One of them was a build up of acids in old abandon mines. I think this is a problem with all manner of mines though, the radioactive version sounds lovely. Oh yes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4nZDSLdIiM
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Lol, some people managed to crash a JLG into a crane today and didn’t report it plus did a poo poo coverup, thereby escalating what would have been no big deal (probably some drug tests but that’s it) into “y’all getting fired when we check the tapes and find out who did it”
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Someone managed to crumple the safety grille (or whatever the bit on the picture below is called in English) on a forklift in our warehouse and told no-one. It's made out of 5 or 6 mm flats so I have no idea how someone managed to completely squish it.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Someone managed to crumple the safety grille (or whatever the bit on the picture below is called in English) on a forklift in our warehouse and told no-one. It's made out of 5 or 6 mm flats so I have no idea how someone managed to completely squish it. you got another fork lift, you think maybe they tried to pick it up and the load weight crushed it?
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LifeSunDeath posted:you got another fork lift, you think maybe they tried to pick it up and the load weight crushed it? I don't see how anyone could've gotten so much of the weight on the grille.
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