For perspective: 100Sv per year is the low limit for significant cancer risk increase.
This equals 100.000 microSv per year ( /8760) is about 11.4 micro-Sieverts per hour.
What the "spike" tells us is that the background dose in Khmelnytski, although 40% greater all of a sudden, is at 140 nano-Sv/hr = 0.00014 micro-Sv/hr. So, yeah, nah. Not something to get knickers in a twist about just yet. What happens when DU dust is 'burned' in an explosion is that most of it does not emit radiation anymore- it got used up so to speak. It is the 'raw dust' that is more concerning, especially if one ingests it on say - food. Best thing that could have happened to DU munitions IMO.
More perspective: Natural Background in Austria: around 0,09 microSv/h, so currently, background radiation in Austria is waaay higher, but still not dangerous.
Mind you, the EU published a spike in radiation in the area - which supposedly indicates that something nuclear happened. https://is2.4chan.org/pol/1684092639463535.jpg
Is this something to worry about?
For perspective: 100Sv per year is the low limit for significant cancer risk increase. This equals 100.000 microSv per year ( /8760) is about 11.4 micro-Sieverts per hour.
What the "spike" tells us is that the background dose in Khmelnytski, although 40% greater all of a sudden, is at 140 nano-Sv/hr = 0.00014 micro-Sv/hr. So, yeah, nah. Not something to get knickers in a twist about just yet. What happens when DU dust is 'burned' in an explosion is that most of it does not emit radiation anymore- it got used up so to speak. It is the 'raw dust' that is more concerning, especially if one ingests it on say - food. Best thing that could have happened to DU munitions IMO.
More perspective: Natural Background in Austria: around 0,09 microSv/h, so currently, background radiation in Austria is waaay higher, but still not dangerous.
Went looking for rad Charts earlier and couldn't find this, so thanks fren.