Whelp, I just found the most tragically hilarious urban explorer of all time. < on 10/1/2013 7:04 AM >
So he sneaks into Pripyat, buys a Geiger counter and then doesn't know how to use it. Notice how many times it goes off. In another video, when he walks almost directly into the building where the reactor went off, he exclaims that the battery on the Geiger counter died. Poor fella.
Re: Whelp, I just found the most tragically hilarious urban explorer of all time. <Reply # 8 on 10/3/2013 5:40 AM >
He was apparently sleeping directly next to the building the reactor went off at.
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Re: Whelp, I just found the most tragically hilarious urban explorer of all time. <Reply # 9 on 10/3/2013 6:47 AM >
Posted by Steed So, I don't know how to use a geiger counter either, the difference being I've never been anywhere I'd need one. What is an unsafe level?
It's really a matter of Rate and Time. But there's some pretty basic stuff to remember;
Outside of a laboratory, you can consider Roentgens / Rads / Rems to be equivalent systems of measurements. So we'll say 1 Roentgen = 1 Rad = 1 Rem (also roughly equals 1 sievert, and = 1 gray) Depends on the scale of the instrument you're using. (technically they're all a little different, but for terms of walking around and/or an emergency, they're all the same)
A Geiger Counter (survey meter) measures the exposure Rate. Think of it as "rads/rem/etc per hour"
A Dosimeter tells you how MUCH radiation exposure you've received. "total rads/rem exposure recieved"
So you can use a Geiger counter and some math to figure your rough personal radiological dosimetry, but not so much the other way around.
For example, if you walk into a building in Pripyat and your Geiger counter is showing say... 20R/hr, after two hours standing there your dosimeter would show 40R. If you left after the first 15 mins, your dosimeter would show 5R.
Reposted from www.radmeters4u.com (a great site, they have some wonderful equipment, and they calibrate it in-house)
Expected health effects for an adult assuming the cumulative total radiation exposure was all received within a weeks time. For children, the effects can be expected at half these dose levels.
TOTAL EXPOSURE ONSET & DURATION OF INITIAL SYMPTOMS & DISPOSITION
30 to 70 R From 6-12 hours: none to slight incidence of transient headache and nausea; vomiting in up to 5 percent of personnel in upper part of dose range. Mild lymphocyte depression within 24 hours. Full recovery expected. (Fetus damage possible from 50R and above.)
70 to 150 R From 2-20 hours: transient mild nausea and vomiting in 5 to 30 percent of personnel. Potential for delayed traumatic and surgical wound healing, minimal clinical effect. Moderate drop in lymphocycte, platelet, and granulocyte counts. Increased susceptibility to opportunistic pathogens. Full recovery expected.
150 to 300 R From 2 hours to three days: transient to moderate nausea and vomiting in 20 to 70 percent; mild to moderate fatigability and weakness in 25 to 60 percent of personnel. At 3 to 5 weeks: medical care required for 10 to 50%. At high end of range, death may occur to maximum 10%. Anticipated medical problems include infection, bleeding, and fever. Wounding or burns will geometrically increase morbidity and mortality.
300 to 530 R From 2 hours to three days: transient to moderate nausea and vomiting in 50 to 90 percent; mild to moderate fatigability in 50 to 90 percent of personnel. At 2 to 5 weeks: medical care required for 10 to 80%. At low end of range, less than 10% deaths; at high end, death may occur for more than 50%. Anticipated medical problems include frequent diarrheal stools, anorexia, increased fluid loss, ulceration. Increased infection susceptibility during immunocompromised time-frame. Moderate to severe loss of lymphocytes. Hair loss after 14 days.
530 to 830 R From 2 hours to two days: moderate to severe nausea and vomiting in 80 to 100 percent of personnel; From 2 hours to six weeks: moderate to severe fatigability and weakness in 90 to 100 percent of personnel. At 10 days to 5 weeks: medical care required for 50 to 100%. At low end of range, death may occur for more than 50% at six weeks. At high end, death may occur for 99% of personnel. Anticipated medical problems include developing pathogenic and opportunistic infections, bleeding, fever, loss of appetite, GI ulcerations, bloody diarrhea, severe fluid and electrolyte shifts, capillary leak, hypotension. Combined with any significant physical trauma, survival rates will approach zero.
830 R Plus From 30 minutes to 2 days: severe nausea, vomiting, fatigability, weakness, dizziness, and disorientation; moderate to severe fluid imbalance and headache. Bone marrow total depletion within days. CNS symptoms are predominant at higher radiation levels. Few, if any, survivors even with aggressive and immediate medical attention.
So if you're exposed to 400R/hr for an hour, you''d be in the "fucked" category.
If you were exposed to a CUMULATIVE of variable rates, over a week which added up to 400R, you'd still be in the "fucked" category.
Give a person a match and they'll be warm for a minute, but light them on fire and they'll be warm for the rest of their life. =)
When in danger, when in doubt, RUN IN CIRCLES, SCREAM AND SHOUT!
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Re: Whelp, I just found the most tragically hilarious urban explorer of all time. <Reply # 10 on 10/7/2013 3:54 AM >
Seems like a nice guy, but he sure doesn't do anything to dispel the basic stereotype about people who speak hillbilly. There are no stupid questions, just stupid people.
When in danger, when in doubt, RUN IN CIRCLES, SCREAM AND SHOUT!
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Re: Whelp, I just found the most tragically hilarious urban explorer of all time. <Reply # 11 on 10/7/2013 3:54 AM >
Seems like a nice guy, but he sure doesn't do anything to dispel the basic stereotype about people who speak hillbilly. There are no stupid questions, just stupid people.
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