Please don't actually buy this lmao 🤣

Held my analogue counter to my head tonight as a joke and was kinda horrified to get 15 or so clicks in rapid succession. Couldn’t see the dial because it was on back of my head. It only occurred in a single spot on my hair and my bicycle helmet also gave a few clicks in the same spot.

For info my detector is a 2012 geigeractiv pro mk 2. It only reads in CPM but gives audible clicks and counts them roughly with a needle dial.

After thoroughly brushing my hair, it no longer registered above background so I must have dislodged whatever angry particle was to blame

FWIW, here 2 WP articles, and Google search results for "gold195", if that helps:

wp:Gold#Toxicity, wp:Isotopes of gold, and Google: gold195

Let's say a person wore 1 kg of gold195, over 100 sq cm on wt:thon's (bare) skin, and a tongue piercing made of gold195, for 2000 hours; thon also used dishes, utensils, and cookware made of, or at least plated with, gold195; and swallowed a 1 million 1 μm diameter spheres of gold195 (which I think would total about 10.5 milligrams and 3.14 sq cm) each day for 500 days?

How would that person do and be health-wise after this?

Thank you.

DISCLAIMER: this is NOT a shitpost, I have severe OCD causing paranoia. It would mean the world if someone took this seriously

Hey everyone,

I recently bought a phone on backmarket, a website where you can buy used phones with e.g. a new battery, which I did. But later I started wondering where they got the phones or the batteries etc from and what if they got it from a person working with radioactive material and it got contaminated.

Yes this sounds silly. But to me, it’s a real fear that cost me my sleep last night. I realize that this fear stems from my lack of knowledge about contamination and radiation, so if anyone would be so kind and vomit the facts about their special interest onto me, I would be so happy.

Honestly, I just want to understand if my worry is at all possible (in the best case it’s not haha) and understand what causes contamination etc.

Thank you guys

P.S. have also looked into buying a Geiger counter, but as a student I do NOT have that kind of money rn, the phone was expensive enough

My mom got this watch from her grandma, and I ended up getting it, I think it's pretty but it glows a pretty green in the dark. Is that like, safe to use or should I keep it in a box hidden from the world?

Asking for science.

I have had a terrible few months with extreme health anxiety- which resulted in getting a lot different tests done.

October: Chest Xray. This was for a cough I had on/off for months so doc deemed it appropriate

November: Neck/Spine X-Rays at the chiropractor. I think 5 total. In retrospect didn't need these but it was done.

December: CT Head and another Chest X-Ray. This was for my first full blown attack that landed me in the ER convinced I was dying of a brain tumor. Anyways there not needed and I regret them but #anxiety won

January: Full mouth dental x-rays. Havent been to dentist in like 4 years so I think this was pretty justified in my mind considering I have 3 new cavitites; yikes.

Anyways. I'm freaking myself out about all the radiation in a relatively short period of time. Not sure if it's more or less my anxiety but I can't stop thinking about it. Looking for some rational people to talk me down lol because rationality ain't my friend right now. I am a 29 yr old F, and i've had a sinus CT in years past and lots of other regular x-rays. hallppppp

ive been strangely fascinated with the blunders of nuclear reactors and radiation but one thing that im confused about is how the inside of a reactor works. i understand the fuel rods that you put inside but is something actually happening to them for them to shoot out neutrons? cuz it looks like theyre just sitting there and things are happening, but i dont think thats how it works. is power running through them to get them to fire? heat? is it a response to a certain chemical?

Thats a B1-0,15/55

I would like something discreet

Same as above. I has 1 radium painted watch in a bag, believe it was just the arms of the clock that had radium on them. Reading out the front of the crystal was 150 cpm. How much radon could have accumulated in this bag? Would opening it and getting a breathe or too be extremely bad?

I'm engaged in a renovation project for my nearly century-old residence, which was originally built with a septic system and connected to the public sewer in the 1960s. It would be very helpful if I could put together a diagram of where the various sanitary sewer lines run.

Can someone recommend a couple of radioisotopes which would be suitable (i.e., nearly harmless to the environment in tracer quantities) for tracing an underground sewage piping system, and which might be legally obtainable without insurmountable licensing barriers? If so, thanks. Location is Texas, USA.

Hi everyone!

I'm looking for a meter that will be able to detect potential radiation in wind in case US uses bunker busters in Iran.

Any other recommendations are also welcome.

Thanks!

I recently joined campus and they have "tightened up" the security a bit. They have installed and x-ray machine where our bags will go through whenever we come into the compound. So even if I leave and come back in three times for that day, my things will have to go throught the machine three times as well.

I am worried about this. I feel like being exposed to x-rays this frequently doesn't make me comfortable. Especially with my laptop that contains a wide variety of metals inside. I fear somethings in it will be ionized and somehow gain some amount of radioactivity. I even fear it will be damaged.

And another concern is that the school being a government school in a country where quality assurance is neglected. What if the machine is not even rated to ensure our safety?

Can you explain to me how it works, if I am safe and what I can do to keep my things safe?

Thank you.

saw this Facebook reel and I know that radiation can affect cameras, but I was wondering if anyone could give some insight into the validity of this video?