Do you think that the suit he’s wearing somehow protects against the gamma radiation and neutrons screaming through his body? It’s just to keep from tracking dust / tiny radioactive particles.
No, there’s nothing human+portable that will provide enough protection for it to be worthwhile:
Unlike charged particles, a certain percentage of gammas will always make it through the absorber, and it is useful to consider the half-value thickness of a given absorbing material for the gamma ray energies of interest.
Definitely agreed. The article said he just took a quick reading while the picture was taken. Apparently no long term effects would happen from the little exposure, but I’m not sure their reference for that.
Either way, the further away to it from me, the better.
According to an article posted in the comments, this was in '96 and it was emitting 10 times less radiation. It says over 500 seconds would be lethal.
Still, that close and without full face coverage. I certainly wouldn’t want to be there.
Do you think that the suit he’s wearing somehow protects against the gamma radiation and neutrons screaming through his body? It’s just to keep from tracking dust / tiny radioactive particles.
Yes, I did think that.
Isn’t there a suit that can protect from radioactivity? Whats the point of the suit if the user gets fucked either way?
No, there’s nothing human+portable that will provide enough protection for it to be worthwhile:
https://sciencedemonstrations.fas.harvard.edu/presentations/α-β-γ-penetration-and-shielding
Neutrons require similar shielding.
It’s possible to block alpha emissions with skin/paper and beta with a sheet of foil, gamma and neutron are scary
Definitely agreed. The article said he just took a quick reading while the picture was taken. Apparently no long term effects would happen from the little exposure, but I’m not sure their reference for that.
Either way, the further away to it from me, the better.