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MoleNet94
Location: Skagit County, WA Gender: Male Total Likes: 10 likes
| | | Re: That abandoned missile silo < Reply # 18 on 3/4/2015 6:11 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Ganesha
A little voice in the back of my mind says "Radiation could have been sleeting thru you all the time you were in there. You wouldn't feel it, any more than you feel a dentist's X-ray." A different little voice says "Don't worry, the government would never let that happen. They would carefully remove any radiation hazard. Or they would fence it off and put one of those yellow propeller signs on it," shrugging unconvincingly.
| Well, first off, this article states that the site was upgraded to Hercules (probably nuclear) missiles, and was decommissioned in 1974. That said, any lingering radiation on the site would not be from U-235, but from isotopes created in the structures and surrounding environment as a result of radiation from the warheads. These things things tend to have relatively short half-lives, too. Considering that one can now pay to take a tour of the Chernobyl area, I'm disinclined to worry at all about this site. But would I be surprised if the radiation was slightly above background levels? I guess not. It would be fun to rent an appropriate detector and take it there.
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