Your overestimating the lethality of radiation. The “Demon Core” guy lasted 9 days. The firefighters from Chernobyl lasted a month. The only criticality events that I can find with immediate fatalities also involve steam explosions.
For those who know, steam is scarier than radiation or fire.
I think you’re reading their comment too literally. I think it’s meant as a joke that the stick is nearing its “EOL”, not the person holding it, but they’re wilfully misinterpreting it.
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Your overestimating the lethality of radiation. The “Demon Core” guy lasted 9 days. The firefighters from Chernobyl lasted a month. The only criticality events that I can find with immediate fatalities also involve steam explosions.
For those who know, steam is scarier than radiation or fire.
Burned my whole index finger with microwave-heated vegetables.
You are not considering what @ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca is considering.
OP ate that stick with the Kellogs™
Found Tim Sweeney’s Lemmy account.
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I think you’re reading their comment too literally. I think it’s meant as a joke that the stick is nearing its “EOL”, not the person holding it, but they’re wilfully misinterpreting it.
I don’t know what commenter meant, but it’s important to spread accurate information about radiation and nuclear tech.
Personally I wouldn’t be holding that rod long enough to read the date and do the maths. Just out of healthy caution.
i went down a rabbit hole on cobalt 60 after seeing this. Cobalt 60 can actually kill you in less than an hour from acute exposure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt-60#Safety