 30 years on, Chernobyl still off limits
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Conundrum
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Tue Apr 26 2016, 12:36PM
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Sobering to think, that some areas of the turbine hall will still yield a lethal dose with tens of hours of exposure.
The "elephant's foot" apparently is so radioactive that photos taken show a strange mottling effect... needless to say
you don't want to go anywhere near it although one brave scientist did and lived to tell the tale.
-A
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Proud Mary
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The dose rate shown on the GM Counter (GMC) in the picture with parasol mushroom is approximately 100 times greater than the average background dose in the UK.
At the risk of generalisation, 20 μSv/hr gamma can be expected to produce fast/very fast rapid clicking on GMCs with a full sized tube.
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Patrick
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It looks like Belarus got screwed over by Moscow too.
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