• @Tangent5280
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    21 year ago

    Isn’t there a suit that can protect from radioactivity? Whats the point of the suit if the user gets fucked either way?

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      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.

      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