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[+] -34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

I asked Chat GPT:

Approximate unshielded dose rates:

At 1 m: ≈ 5.2×10^4 Sv/h (≈51,800 Sv/h) — fatal essentially instantaneously (seconds or less).

At 3 m: ≈ 5.8×10^3 Sv/h — fatal within seconds.

At 10 m: ≈ 5.18×10^2 Sv/h — fatal within tens of seconds.

At 30 m: ≈ 5.8×10^1 Sv/h — severe, life‑threatening in minutes.

At 100 m: ≈ 5.2 Sv/h — dangerous; a few hours would produce fatal/serious acute radiation syndrome.

(For perspective: an acute whole‑body dose of ~4–5 Sv often causes death without intensive medical care; 1 Sv already causes significant radiation sickness.)

These are conservative, point‑source, unshielded estimates for whole‑body dose from the gammas. Being closer, or in contact, or staying in the field increases dose proportionally.

Back to me again. I'm sorry my radioactive physics game is weak and I had to speculatively look it up. That's a lot of downvotes, yet no one decided to share the math themselves.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You're not getting downvoted. ChatGPT is getting downvoted, and you just happened to be in the way.

    These guys, the 2nd google link after AI, say that a 3540 Ci/130 TBq source would be around 500 Sv/h at 30 cm. Even Wikipedia says 45 Sv/h at 1m

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Back to me again. I'm sorry my radioactive physics game is weak and I had to speculatively look it up. That's a lot of downvotes, yet no one decided to share the math themselves.

    I asked my toddler about the radiation and she said "nana" and then with emphasis "nana" once more.

    The downvotes are because our two methods of finding an answer are roughly equally likely to returning a reliable answer.

    Mine is slightly better for the climate, maybe. That will likely change as she grows up and uses up more resources. I'll ask her to do the math on that one later, she is busy eating a book right now.

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