an 800microsievert Forrest!

Not sure if this is really fragile for Earth or more a cancer...


I follow a youtube movie-maker type person and their trips to radioactive lands.
She just went back to Chernobyl this week, and had a look at the red forrest!
youtube Link


armed with nothing but a beeper and a HD handycam she gets some impressive readings!

Its impressive but nothing compared to the 17000 MICROSIEVERT fragment she found a while back!
Youtube Link

Holy crap, you could kill somebody with that grain of sand! Imagine that!

Too bad it probably has the mass of about a million pounds... You know, that British money? The mass would be equivalent to the mass of about a million of those 1¥ coins... So if you dropped that into someone's glass, it would shatter the glass into about 5 1/2 pieces once it hit the bottom. Not to mention cause a tidal wave of beer that would be apocalyptic.

reply to post by Agit8dChop


Now look, you can complain about the folly of nuclear energy, but we need it!

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Do you have any idea how many people would be without electricity without nuclear plants?

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Sure, there are bound to be accidents, but necessity certainly outweighs the dangers.

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Okay, so some people might get radiation poisoning and get cold like symptoms, but that's all.

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After all is said an done, Nuclear energy is our friend.

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Jeez, Wikipedia lists only 34 radioactive waste repositories around the world. Some might think this is a lot. I don't.

I think it's INSANE!!!!

List Radioactive Waste Repositories

Radioactivity is measured in Becquerels or Curies. Sieverts are a unit of radiation dose equivalent. Sieverts per hour would adequately describe the radiation dose something would get at a certain distance from an object, per unit of time, however Sieverts alone would not. Neither is a Sievert a unit of radioactivity.

Therefore, the statement that a rock is x amount of sievert simply doesn't make any sense.

Nice video though, I'd like to visit Chernobyl.


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Unfortunately (for you) pictures of deformities does not provide any information about the risks and benefits of nuclear power. Would you rather live with no idea than to live with the right idea?