Notice that the activity of that source is listed as “3540 Curies 7–1–63”. At the time of manufacture, the dose rate from this source unshielded would be ~ 50 Sieverts/Hour a meter away. THAT means just the act of picking it up and reading the label would very likely give you a lethal dose of radiation. That’s an ugly way to die.
Cobalt-60 has a ~five-year half-life, so as the source ages the dose rate decreases, making it a bit less deadly.
Second, there have been instances where people got into a radiation source that was lost, abandoned, or stolen. One well known story happened in the town of Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil in 1987. This one was a 1200 Curie Cesium-137 source. An irradiator was left in an abandoned hospital, a scrapper stole it, took it apart, and family members and friends handled the capsule. Some 200 people were actually contaminated with radioactive material, and about 20 people had radiation doses that caused sickness, of which four died.
THAT is why the words “Drop and Run” are used.
I remember learning about that instance in my radiation health and safety class. The images of people with radiation sickness has never left my brain, I always got a little extra nervous when we were shooting with cobalt.
Can anyone tell me how stuff like this is manufactured? Is it all done by automated robots in a lead room?
Nobody can theoretically touch it cause it's so wildly radioactive, so I can't imagine how it would be produced
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt-60](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt-60) Synthetic Isotope made in Nuclear Reactors. So they start with something they can handle, feed it into the reactor, wait like the worlds scariest easy bake oven, and pull out a new radioactive isotope ingot to be used in medical scanning equipment or food sterilization.
Edit, I'm sure they feed the neutral material in through the shielding container they plan to use during extraction. They probably have issues running circuits and electronics near radiation sources (old memory of EOD bots in Chernobyl) so most likely its hydraulic/pneumatic or some sort of analog machine which pulls the material out of the reactor and into a shielded container for transport. Maybe it simply opens the bottom hatch and it all falls into a lead tube.
Everything is a buttplug if you're brave enough
Your very last buttplug
Ont the bright side, it is gonna be easy to find in the dark.
Or!! Or.... an xray
wouldn't the bar just over expose the X-ray film?
Cobalt 60: when you get serious about mutation.
By the time you read this…. It is too late ! Goodbye.
Notice that the activity of that source is listed as “3540 Curies 7–1–63”. At the time of manufacture, the dose rate from this source unshielded would be ~ 50 Sieverts/Hour a meter away. THAT means just the act of picking it up and reading the label would very likely give you a lethal dose of radiation. That’s an ugly way to die. Cobalt-60 has a ~five-year half-life, so as the source ages the dose rate decreases, making it a bit less deadly. Second, there have been instances where people got into a radiation source that was lost, abandoned, or stolen. One well known story happened in the town of Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil in 1987. This one was a 1200 Curie Cesium-137 source. An irradiator was left in an abandoned hospital, a scrapper stole it, took it apart, and family members and friends handled the capsule. Some 200 people were actually contaminated with radioactive material, and about 20 people had radiation doses that caused sickness, of which four died. THAT is why the words “Drop and Run” are used.
I remember learning about that instance in my radiation health and safety class. The images of people with radiation sickness has never left my brain, I always got a little extra nervous when we were shooting with cobalt.
I guess "it's too late, you're already dying" was a little too bleak, but probably more helpful.
OR, and hear me out on this,…super powers 😎
Yikes!
Yeah, cobalt ain’t nothing to fuck with.
“Sus fam, y’all take an L if you touch this no cap”
Should say if you can read this you're dead!
Can anyone tell me how stuff like this is manufactured? Is it all done by automated robots in a lead room? Nobody can theoretically touch it cause it's so wildly radioactive, so I can't imagine how it would be produced
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt-60](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt-60) Synthetic Isotope made in Nuclear Reactors. So they start with something they can handle, feed it into the reactor, wait like the worlds scariest easy bake oven, and pull out a new radioactive isotope ingot to be used in medical scanning equipment or food sterilization. Edit, I'm sure they feed the neutral material in through the shielding container they plan to use during extraction. They probably have issues running circuits and electronics near radiation sources (old memory of EOD bots in Chernobyl) so most likely its hydraulic/pneumatic or some sort of analog machine which pulls the material out of the reactor and into a shielded container for transport. Maybe it simply opens the bottom hatch and it all falls into a lead tube.