Railing Kill posted:

Shades of the Well There's Your Problem episode about a bridge collapse in which it was discovered there was a service ticket in for the fault that brought the bridge down. After it collapsed, someone amended the ticket status to "resolved" on account of the collapse.

Wistful of Dollars posted:

https://i.imgur.com/CbvCFvZ.mp4

Slugworth posted:

I might be misunderstanding something, but it looks like the implication is it passed, but someone went back in and changed it to fail to cover their rear end afterwards?

Cthulu Carl posted:

I don't think they did a full episode on that, it was part of The Goddamn News for the bridge collapse in Pittsburgh. I can't remember if the ticket was actually resolved or they just joked about it for far too long, though.

Gomez Chamberlain posted:

Side note, I really, really hate that podcast. I don't know what it is, but the few times I've tuned into something, I either find their voices grating or they'll say something completely freaking wrong and it just infuriates me.

dog nougat posted:

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Phanatic posted:

12.6 mSv, even in a half an hour, isn't going to lead to any effects that aren't psychosomatic. US occupational limit for rad workers is 50 mSv/year.

Moreover, what he's describing doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense. He describes that there's a pipe that's ordinarily shielded by a lead pad, and someone previously did some work on that section of pipe and then didn't put the shield back in place, and then he went and put his head/torso near the pipe to do some other work and got dosed. But then he describes them finding actual contamination on his head/torso/helmet. But what? Nuclear material isn't escaping the pipe and spraying over him, he's not being contaminated by pieces of radioactive material, he's just getting hit with radiation escaping from the material in the pipe.

He's at least open to the possibility that his symptoms were nocebo, so that's good, but he didn't have radiation sickness.

Eeyo posted:

Yeah that's a bit strange. About the only thing I could think of is it's literally just an old radioactive pipe that was laying around, you could probably pick up contamination from it if you rubbed up on it. But if it was so hot that it could get you like mSv in a couple minutes they probably wouldn't have it just laying around there with a few blocks of lead or whatever.

About the only other thing I could think of if it's a research thing and it's a neutron beamline. But that wouldn't be shielded by lead.

FrozenVent posted:

They also love to blame workers for accidents when the cause is deeply rooted in capitalism. See the Piper Alfa and Herald of Free Enterprise episodes for example.

Yes, I know what their politics are, they’re just not good at safety science.

KoRMaK posted:

i have never once heard them blame an individual worker over the systemic causes leading to an accident what the hell are you talking about

Aperture Priority posted:

sarcastx posted:

...unless it's during the Safety Third segment

The Management posted:

That blazing inferno ahead of us? Yeah, just keep driving deeper into it. This is fine

null_pointer posted:

This opinion is pretty widespread among the forums and is completely uncontroversial. Roz would be (and is) great on his own but Liam and Alice are insufferable assholes who will Not. Shut. The gently caress. Up. For even. One. Minute.

ekuNNN posted:

https://twitter.com/globalnews/status/1663273259079483393

Kith posted:

it's heartbreaking that Franklin, a genuinely cool and interesting series that taught me a lot about american history, has been completely supplanted by WTYP, a podcast where the one person who mostly knows what he's talking about gets constantly interrupted by two idiots shouting the same poo poo jokes over and over

Rigged Death Trap posted:

Also Power Politics and Planning.
Ill join you on the funeral pyre

Sagebrush posted:

Me too. I miss both Franklin and PPP a lot. Especially Franklin. I really enjoyed that series.

The guy is a goon, right? Where does he post? Can we go and threaten him or something

Desiderata posted:

Every time WTYP comes up it's always followed by pages of goons whining about his co-hosts. Don't listen to it then.

PurpleXVI posted:

There is literally one interesting segment:

He's doing electrical work in a nuclear power plant, next to a pipe carrying radioactive material. The last person to do work on the pipe has removed the lead padding to work on it, and has neglected to replace it. Thus he receives 12.8 miliSieverts to his face and chest before a workplace safety guy yanks him out of there and gets him tested for whether he's melting or not. Apparently he wasn't aware of the "being irradiated"-part because his dosimeter had been dropped and damaged by the last wearer.

Traxis posted:

https://twitter.com/tilraunir/status/1663428196010979328

Kith posted:

https://i.imgur.com/ISKMzd5.mp4

iroc.dis posted:

Question for that handful of goons that have worked around radioactive stuff: do dosimeters have to be regularly calibrated/bump-tested like multi gas monitors?

Kith posted:

https://i.imgur.com/ISKMzd5.mp4

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

Actually it's more of a generalised question anyway. So in the yearly secret santa I was gifted this fine piece of equipment:


Out of interest, I took it to work with me. The zero dial on it is fairly sensitive, so I'm assuming the engine vibration isn't doing it any favours, but after re-zeroing while alongside, I was picking up an amount of radiation.









That was on the 0.1 setting, so it's not half a roentgen, and according to the calibration certificate inside it was last calibrated in 1982 so it's probably fair to say that it's a little out by now.

I live in NZ, so I don't even want to think about trying to calibrate this myself. How on earth would one calibrate a device like this? I was thinking of contacting one of the larger universities and seeing if they can point me in the right direction. The card in the unit says that it was last done by "Department of Emergency Services Radiological Maintenance Shop, Olympia, Washington".
That's obviously a little out of the way for me. Any thoughts, or should I just continue to regard this as a cool gift and not worry about getting it calibrated?

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

So as I mentioned the meter hasn't been calibrated since 1982. I just got off the phone to the National Radiation Laboratory to see if I could arrange to have it calibrated and had a very amusing conversation with them.
When I called I said look it's picked up some readings and I was hoping to get it calibrated as I'm not sure it's accurate. The nice lady transferred me to another gentleman who asked me for the details of what the readings were and where I was when I noticed them, and I mentioned the meter hadn't been calibrated since 1982 so I wasn't sure if it was accurate.
The guy let out an audible sigh of relief and said 'ok, you've been transferred through to the emergency line, I thought we might have a major incident on our hands.'
Arc Light, you forever loving win every prize for genuinely scaring the poor scientists ahahahahahahhahahahahahahahhahahah

coldpudding posted:

I remember reading some pretty crazy probably bullshit stories on the early internet about what people found toying around with their detectors, one that sticks with me still was the guy who found an orphaned neutron source at his high school. Well one story I thought was fake was in fact real it turns out people really were dumb enough to use uranium frizzens in their flintlock guns.

https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/consumer/depleted-uranium/frizzen.html

"While DU provided a reliable method to ignite black powder, the tiny uranium fragments that became airborne when the flintlock was discharged posed a potential inhalation hazard. Gun enthusiasts were warned about this problem and told not to face their frizzens with uranium in the August 1992 issue of Muzzle Blasts magazine."

weg posted:

Looks like Aquaman finally closed the deal with Ben Shapiro.

Kith posted:

https://i.imgur.com/ISKMzd5.mp4

iroc.dis posted:

Question for that handful of goons that have worked around radioactive stuff: do dosimeters have to be regularly calibrated/bump-tested like multi gas monitors?