There was an accident at Three Mile Island, a partial core meltdown resulting from a failure in the coolant system. The system finally came to rest. Some radioactive gas and iodine leaked into the atmosphere. Governor Thornburgh was considering ordering a general evacuation, but relented after realizing that more people would be harmed by accidents in the evacuation melee than by radioactivity exposure. The containment structure was contaminated by the leakage of primary coolant. It was not done "on purpose." There was no way the actual event could have been done on purpose.
The fear of radioactivity and radiation is overblown. But this does not mean that it can never be of serious concern, or even lethal. Level is everything. An early worker in the Manhattan Project inadvertently made the error of allowing two pieces of fissionable material to get too close together. They had a sudden flash of fission and he was lethally exposed, dying within minutes.
Plutonium is not found in nature. It is transmuted from natural uranium in a nuclear reactor. So, it belongs to whomever made it. (But all fissionables are controlled by the government for reasons of security.) Nuclear weapons "belong to the people" too, but they will never get out of government hands.
Thanks, but I've been aware of the over-exaggeration of radioactivity fears for at least half a century. I've read "The Effects of Nuclear Weapons" by Glasstone and Dolan (the Bible on the subject). I've heard of people doing stunts like eating plutonium, though I wouldn't advise anyone to ingest any metal.
There was an accident at Three Mile Island, a partial core meltdown resulting from a failure in the coolant system. The system finally came to rest. Some radioactive gas and iodine leaked into the atmosphere. Governor Thornburgh was considering ordering a general evacuation, but relented after realizing that more people would be harmed by accidents in the evacuation melee than by radioactivity exposure. The containment structure was contaminated by the leakage of primary coolant. It was not done "on purpose." There was no way the actual event could have been done on purpose.
The fear of radioactivity and radiation is overblown. But this does not mean that it can never be of serious concern, or even lethal. Level is everything. An early worker in the Manhattan Project inadvertently made the error of allowing two pieces of fissionable material to get too close together. They had a sudden flash of fission and he was lethally exposed, dying within minutes.
Plutonium is not found in nature. It is transmuted from natural uranium in a nuclear reactor. So, it belongs to whomever made it. (But all fissionables are controlled by the government for reasons of security.) Nuclear weapons "belong to the people" too, but they will never get out of government hands.
I'm just curious, did you listen to the video https://www.bitchute.com/video/HEvoTgDgpKSx/
Thanks, but I've been aware of the over-exaggeration of radioactivity fears for at least half a century. I've read "The Effects of Nuclear Weapons" by Glasstone and Dolan (the Bible on the subject). I've heard of people doing stunts like eating plutonium, though I wouldn't advise anyone to ingest any metal.
I agree best not to ingest metals especially when fired out of the end of a barrel lol.
I do make exception for titanium bits and pieces to hold me together, but they are inert.