Some tissue holders are radioactive! Makes you wonder what else is! Need to get a geiger counter to do the shopping!
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Some tissue holders are radioactive! Makes you wonder what else is! Need to get a geiger counter to do the shopping!
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Thanks, Joe. Maybe I should learn how to operate the links before I try the geiger counter!
That's funny right there!Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrapette
Thanks. I try.Quote:
Originally Posted by injunjoe
Does anyone else find this story worrying?
Extremely.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrapette
Yea, but what's the point of worrying. Hershey's radiates their candy bars, crop dusters drop poisons all around me, our veggies and produce are full of poison and processed food isn't really food. I just eat organic when I can, avoid a drivethrough at all costs and drink a lot of purified (I hope) water.
"If someone has one of these, they could receive a small radiation dose from it," he said. For example, he said someone keeping one of the boxes on a vanity in the bathroom and spending about 30 minutes a day near it for a year would receive the equivalent of a couple of chest x-rays.
...And then the glowing started....
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Originally Posted by MLComputers
Not to be a paranoiac or anything, but is imported stuff tested for radiation routinely or did this just happen to get caught? Anybody on here from Homeland Security?
I went on a date there one time!Quote:
Originally Posted by Kris Kringle
You went on a date to bed,bath and beyond? Was she trying to tell you something?Quote:
Originally Posted by skylinejackjr
Hersey's radiates their candy bars? Now you've done it, Dee, you've left me nothing to live for!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dumpster-Dee
I believe the whole continental US has low levels of background radiation from plutonium and uranium isotopes. This is due to fallout from early weapons testing in the 40's and 50's. Not enough to cause damage (so they say) but it is there nonetheless.
lol Now I gotta wonder about that. Don't know why she wanted to go there, but she did. Turned out to be a great evening though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrapette
I worked in a radioactive field before and trust me if there was something to worry about they would let you know. From what little info I was able to find out this seems to be fine and not a huge issue but if you have it...just take it back.
Things people dont know.
Smoke alarms
bananas
microwaves
car
old tvs
some computers
and many other house hold items have and or make some kind of radioactive and or radio waves that can be harmful but on the other note...if you did not get ANY radiation you would be come sick. The radiation helps kills weak skin cells and helps brake down the compose pile out in your yard. All of this would be called background radiation.
I will end this here as I can go on a good bit on this subject as I learned alot when I was working on that job and all of it seemed awesome.
Bananas? Really?
im going to have to trust you with this cause so much crap going on with everything not enough time to worry about everything.Quote:
Originally Posted by easyrecycle
Hmm. Learn something new every day.
http://www.raw-food-health.net/Natural-Radiation.html
any of ya ever heard of the Georgia Guide stones, they spell it all out in 4 languages.
Yes they really are radioactive along with MANY of your other foods, trash can and even your own body MAKES radiation to some point! So when people want to freak out when they want to build a nuke power plant...they don't understand the amount of radiation is LOWER than what the background radiation is, this being said nuke plants are VERY safe to live by unless something happens but even then trust me you are more than safe.Quote:
Originally Posted by skylinejackjr
I can not go into to much details on nuclear power plants and how they are built and how they work but what I can tell you is this.
The power plant is build 3 times. In short this means that...well...lets make this simple
You have one light bulb with one wire.
the power plant will have 3 light bulbs and each light bulb will have 3 wires. Its build on a redundant system for safety so if any one item failed...they have 2 more of said item...and 2 more power lines going to it. So, all pumps..they have three of them on three power lines are not connected together. I hope ya'll understand because its hard to explain something short...that you just have so much info on.
O no, I understand ya. My nanners can kill me. Right?Quote:
Originally Posted by easyrecycle
No , but I had me a Georgia peach once and let me tell she was somethin ....Quote:
Originally Posted by olddude
I was eating a Georgia peach....then I saw a worm...Quote:
Originally Posted by skylinejackjr
lmao...sorry...I had to.
now thats Funny!Quote:
Originally Posted by easyrecycle
Explain all that to the people of Japan, they really got the short end of the stick.Quote:
the power plant will have 3 light bulbs and each light bulb will have 3 wires. Its build on a redundant system for safety so if any one item failed...they have 2 more of said item...and 2 more power lines going to it. So, all pumps..they have three of them on three power lines are not connected together.
People used to (and same may still) eat off of radioactive plates. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiesta_...oactive_Glazes
These come up for sale from time to time in auctions around here. Here is a fun youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SABNRJeymG8
I was waiting for someone to bring that up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mechanic688
A long story short they just got messed up back when the earthquake hit them. It took out some of the main pumps so they where having a issue with shutting it all down....then the water came...they knocked out all the power on all three lines, there back up gens where damaged by the earthquake and where not able to start.
That is why they needed gen and pumps to shut it down.
Also note the damage they took on the housing it self.
They had a list of things failing and could not keep up with it. But if they HAD power after the earthquake they COULD of shut it down even with the main pumps dead as they still had the back up pumps that they USED after they had a main power line back up and running.
chernobyl
Fukushima Daiichi
3 mile island
And these are the ones we know about........
I learned about this one...reason why that happened ...is kinda funny to but not funny...Quote:
Originally Posted by Dumpster-Dee
They went to do a test...a very simple every day test...what they did not know was that the system was all ready broken...so when they started the test it seemed like it was going as it should but then it started to spin out of control.
Its just hard to explain unless you have worked on the inside of one and been apart of the testing, rebuilding of them.
Nothing to worry about except cancer, HO! and that extra finger I have on my right hand. This is what I don't understand about the main story of this thread. It said that there isn't enough radiation to harm anyone but only 4 boxes set off the radiation detector.
What was that nuclear place in TN, oak hill, or pine oak ridge or something? Even the deers that they hunted near it had to be tested. A guy I knew in Nashville had a deer from near there he'd had tested, and he still wasn't thinking he would keep it.
I live bout 20 minutes from Oak Ridge (mabye that's what's wrong with me)Quote:
Originally Posted by Bear
hek, i guess it saves leaving a light on at night ; )Quote:
Originally Posted by mikeinreco
lmao, that would save my last $300+ electric bill, plus i mightnot ever haver to recharge my cordless tools :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Bear
lol...so does that mean red roof inn or whichever hotel/motel it is that says.."We'll leave the light on for you." mean the whole place is full of radiation or just the people that work night shift?
Sirscrapalot - Does this mean Magneto is really a scrapper in disguise? THat whole magnetic thing and all..