Radioactive fallout and NVS

[kartoffel]

I have lived in brick or stone buildings my whole life to protect me from potential radiation sources...

If you had lived in wooden buildings, you would have been exposed to less radiation. Bricks and stone are naturally radioactive.

But if you're seriously considering sprinkling iodized salt on your gear to "protect" it, you're probably too far gone. Or trolling. In which case: your mom is radioactive. Actually, she is even if you're not a troll.

[lethal dose]

If you had lived in wooden buildings, you would have been exposed to less radiation. Bricks and stone are naturally radioactive.

But if you're seriously considering sprinkling iodized salt on your gear to "protect" it, you're probably too far gone. Or trolling. In which case: your mom is radioactive. Actually, she is even if you're not a troll.

i was about to say something similar.

wagon... you need some meds, brother? i'm thinking some of that radiation may have already got to you!

[709bubblehead]

Just because you want to be subjected to 550 millirem of radiation poising doesn't mean I want even .5! I have lived in brick or stone buildings my whole life to protect me from potential radiation sources...

Im in Hawaii now and I am alot closer than most are to Japan (Even the Japanese, because the wind is blowing this way) I'm thinking about getting some lead containers for my ammunition so the radiation doesn't get to it, I may sprinkle salt all over my weapons and accessories for the iodine. After all, what good is my SHTF equipment if its glowing?

1. First off, it wasn't a matter of "wanting" to be exposed, but it's kind of difficult to serve on a nuclear submarine without being exposed.

2. You're being exposed to radiation when, among other things, you stand outside in the sun. Radiation exposure does not equal radiation "poisoning".

3. It's already been mentioned, but bricks are natural sources of radiation. In fact, over your lifetime, you're probably been exposed to more radiation from your house than you will from the situation in Japan.

4. Radiation is energy that travels in waves. The wind can't blow it around any more than the wind can blow sunlight around. The people in Japan are actually being exposed to more radiation because they are closer to the source than you are. I think maybe contamination is the word you're looking for.

5. If it were even feasible for you to get lead containers for all your gear, the lead would present a much greater risk to your health than whatever radiation (like .5 millirem) you may be exposed to as a result of this unfortunate series of events unfolding in Japan.

[itsturtle]

I wish I remember where I read it, but I was looking up information about one of those small x-ray machines that are used to check your carry on luggage at airports. We had one at work and it was a pretty small unit, but the amount of radiation it put out was really insignificant. Funny thing was, they claimed that you would have to run an item through the machine between 750-1000 times to expose it to as much radiation as standing in Colorado's sunlight for 24 hours, or as much as 3 hours flying in an airplane.

I'm sure the only way we would receive a dangerous amount of radiation, is if someone put the reactor on a boat and brought the entire thing here to melt down. Otherwise, there are FAR worse things to worry about that come from our own country.

[pbr streetgang]

To the OP..

If it makes you feel any better, I live closer to japan than pretty much everyone else on this site and my NEPVS-14 has been in use every night since the quake and is still working fine.. However, my eyes started glowing last night and I think I might be growing a tail

[2/5 Grunt]

Despite EMP, logistics train battery replacement failure, or busting your optic....
No excuses.
If ya can't shoot with iron.... You aint a shooter.
Nuff said.
I'll say again:
If you cannot shoot with iron sights,
You are NOT A SHOOTER.

[bubba04]

To me it sounds like you have a cheap source for tracers.

Just because you want to be subjected to 550 millirem of radiation poising doesn't mean I want even .5! I have lived in brick or stone buildings my whole life to protect me from potential radiation sources...

Im in Hawaii now and I am alot closer than most are to Japan (Even the Japanese, because the wind is blowing this way) I'm thinking about getting some lead containers for my ammunition so the radiation doesn't get to it, I may sprinkle salt all over my weapons and accessories for the iodine. After all, what good is my SHTF equipment if its glowing?

[kartoffel]

Despite EMP, logistics train battery replacement failure, or busting your optic....

Aha - that's the distinction: EMP versus radiation. Electromagnetic pulses CAN wreck electronic optics. Radiation however, won't.

Fortunately, radiation does not cause EMP. Even regular airburst nuclear explosions won't do it. You need either a very high altitude nuclear explosion, or a specially crafted conventional explosive. The conventional EMP's

[sammage]

Despite EMP, logistics train battery replacement failure, or busting your optic....
No excuses.
If ya can't shoot with iron.... You aint a shooter.
Nuff said.
I'll say again:
If you cannot shoot with iron sights,
You are NOT A SHOOTER.

EMP and radiation are two entirely different things.

[thopkins22]

Nevermind.