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A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool

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Re: A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool

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Post by tomcam »

SkyPuncher wrote: post #172
arthurcolle wrote: post #145

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But I am not doing surgery. I am expressing skepticism at the "oh no it's all fine" from literally everyone reporting on this story

You're being unnecessarily attacked for what is largely a casual forum where people make casual comments and speculation all of the time. Further, your reasoning is biased towards safety (rather than risk), which seems completely sane.

Agreed. These violent reactions aren’t unusual for HN but they are unnecessary and acutely disappointing.

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Post by kakacik »

sigmoid10 wrote: post #212
iamacyborg wrote: post #204

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People should probably try improve their CV health via exercise, rather than pills, wherever possible.

Doctors have been telling us that for decades now and still noone does it despite overwhelming evidence. I guess the average Joe will always need a cheap workaround drug rather than putting themselves at any level of physical discomfort.

Lazy people will be lazy, whatever nasty side effect it brings down the line. These days they will also 'brag' about it online.

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Post by j16sdiz »

Traubenfuchs wrote: post #199
kybernetyk wrote: post #192

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shrooms

think again https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221175391...

Copying the abstract here, just in case anybody don't have access:

Emily Austin, Hilary S. Myron, Richard K. Summerbell, Constance A. Mackenzie, Acute renal injury cause by confirmed Psilocybe cubensis mushroom ingestion,

Medical Mycology Case Reports, Volume 23, 2019, Pages 55-57, ISSN 2211-7539,

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2018.12.007. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221175391...)

Abstract: Psilocybe mushrooms are consumed for their hallucinogenic properties. Fortunately, there are relatively few adverse effects associated with their consumption. This is the first reported case of acute kidney injury (AKI) secondary to confirmed ingestion of Psilocybe cubensis mushroom. A 15-year-old male developed symptomatic AKI 36 h post-ingestion of Psilocybe cubensis mushrooms. He was admitted to hospital with hypertension, nausea and abdominal pain and a creatinine of 450 mmol/L. A sample of the crop of mushrooms was confirmed by mass spectrometry to contain psilocin. On day 5 post-admission, he was discharged home. Outpatient follow-up confirmed complete resolution of his renal function.

Keywords: Psilocybe; Nephrotoxicity; Mushrooms; Kidney injury

Re: A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool

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Post by madaxe_again »

ComplexSystems wrote: post #104
roenxi wrote: post #95

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The pool. But it isn't necessarily a problem - your hair, right now, is radioactive. Presumably wouldn't trip a measuring device because it'd be background levels. The linked report doesn't say how radioactive his hair is or give any indication of whether the person in question is threatened by this reading. Could be bad, could be nothing, we just know it is higher than normal.

It says "The individual was decontaminated by radiation protection personnel but had 300 counts per minute detected in their hair."

For reference, this is about the same in your hair that you’d get from a few hours in a pub in the 90s, never mind working in one - surprising amount of radiation in cigarette smoke from polonium and lead-210.

Re: A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool

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Post by unglaublich »

The Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board has a great YouTube channel where they carefully analyze similar accidents.

https://www.youtube.com/@USCSB/videos

Not necessarily nuclear (since chemical and industrial accidents are much, muhc more likely), but highly recommended if you're interested in such incidents and their causes.

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Post by hunterpayne »

simoncion wrote: post #200
grogenaut wrote: post #135

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no not sure. yeah I used the an average instrument specific rate. The point is a) everything emits, b) we have no idea on severity from the info, could be a little, could be a lot. Could also be short term (haircut) or longer term (ingested) exposures.

> yeah I used the an average instrument specific rate. Would you provide a link to the source of this average instrument specific rate? I'm interested in knowing which instruments designed to detect low-to-medium-level radiation sources on a human are configured so that five detections per second would equate to a "You're fucking dead; there's really no hope for you" dose. (Did you ask an LLM to "convert counts per m…

You need a device that can measure the different types of radiation. Then you have to do a bunch of calculations to estimate absorption. Only then can you calculate Greys which is the measurement that matters.

PS 300 CPM is nothing. There are places where people live where the natural background radiation is higher than that. Also, background radiation is mostly Gamma rays which is more dangerous than what comes off of fission products or nuclear fuel.

Re: A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool

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Post by wiz21c »

Animats wrote: post #45

Palisades MI reactor. Currently shut down and de-fueled but a restart of this reactor is apparently underway, with new fuel assemblies being delivered.[1] Worker was wearing a life vest.[2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palisades_Nuclear_Generating_S... [2] https://www.mlive.com/news/2025/10/michigan-nuclear-plant-wo...

dunno if the life vest bit comment of yours was sarcastic, but it is a funny remark for sure :-)

it sounds like "guy felt down in a volcano, but fortunately, he had a life vest"

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Post by arijun »

iamacyborg wrote: post #204
Traubenfuchs wrote: post #201

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PDE5 (viagra, cyalis) improve the health of the cardiovascular system, thus improve kidney health and I greatly enjoy them. This is well researched and just like with semaglutide I believe a big part of the population should take daily tadalafil. Better cardiovascular health, more erections and many positive downstream effects (lower E:T ratio, weight loss) that are beyond the scope of this comment.

People should probably try improve their CV health via exercise, rather than pills, wherever possible.

Why not both?

Every person has a limit of how much time and energy they can put into exercise. If they can go beyond that with a pill (with no other cost), why wouldn't you want everyone to take it?

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