"Nuclear source materials" (presumably fissionable isotopes, e.g., uranium or plutonium) are not capable of being deadly over a broad area. They are pretty much limited to being dangerous from physical contact, if even that.
Some clever entrepreneur should figure out a way to manufacture a Geiger counter that is no larger than a cell phone and available at a reasonable price. If the counter is silent, there is no problem. (By the way, Mother Nature is radioactive. There is a background radiation level, everywhere, from soil and cosmic rays. We wallow in it.)
Most excellent! But they are wrong in saying it would not be suitable for a "critical" situation. In critical situations you must make do with what you have at hand, as time is often of the essence.
Occurs naturally. Not likely to be an artificial weapon. With a half-life of 3.8 days, most would be lost in preparation. According to the existence of hormesis, low exposure may even be beneficial.
I am fully aware of that. I am a concrete flatwork contractor and radon gas is a phenomenon I am very familiar with through the processes of mitigation. I was replying to the parenthetical sentence in ops post.
"Nuclear source materials" (presumably fissionable isotopes, e.g., uranium or plutonium) are not capable of being deadly over a broad area. They are pretty much limited to being dangerous from physical contact, if even that.
Some clever entrepreneur should figure out a way to manufacture a Geiger counter that is no larger than a cell phone and available at a reasonable price. If the counter is silent, there is no problem. (By the way, Mother Nature is radioactive. There is a background radiation level, everywhere, from soil and cosmic rays. We wallow in it.)
They made a detector phone in Japan a while back.
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Most excellent! But they are wrong in saying it would not be suitable for a "critical" situation. In critical situations you must make do with what you have at hand, as time is often of the essence.
Radon gas.
Occurs naturally. Not likely to be an artificial weapon. With a half-life of 3.8 days, most would be lost in preparation. According to the existence of hormesis, low exposure may even be beneficial.
I am fully aware of that. I am a concrete flatwork contractor and radon gas is a phenomenon I am very familiar with through the processes of mitigation. I was replying to the parenthetical sentence in ops post.
Apology. To tell the truth, I couldn't find the parenthetic sentence. I was concentrating more on the notion of "nuclear source materials."