Quite by chance, the same guy used to work at the ESRF in Grenoble and when I visited him there he took me into the accelerator tunnel shortly after they’d gone into shutdown. In places machines like that leak radioactive beams and these activate the insides of the tunnel walls, usually generating isotopes that decay away quite quickly (e.g. days). So the radiation protection people go in first and do a survey. They hang little labels on the walls marking the hotspots and saying ‘Don’t stand here !’. Apparently you’re OK as long as you keep moving. Anyway the dosimeter badge he gave me came back with nothing on it.
Take a peice of uranium glass with you and place it next to the dose badge, just for shits n gigs. Health physicists and their world famous sence of humour
I once saw the consequences of leaving a film badge (not mine, thank heavens) in a drawer for a month alongside quite a large barium titanate ‘doorknob’ capacitor. Who knew that the sintering compound had thorium in it (I don’t think modern ones do) ? The RP people actually came over in person to break the bad news to the badge ‘wearer’.
Putting spacecraft into the Sun is boggling my mind.
It flies under the surface of the Corona for 5 hours at 100Kps and NASA say., It was bit dustier than we expected
Beeb just interviewing a scientist who has sprinkled a small amount of piss on the chips, the caveat being that although the mirror has fully folded out they have yet to lock one section into place.
Bugger, send in Stronzetto to sort things out.
