I've been looking up those radiated soldiers

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from the viewpoint that, are they still dangerous?

It seems that if you are irradiated externally, you are not a danger to anyone else; you don't remain radioactive yourself. Materials that are on them might be, though. I read that once the radioactive rays go through human tissue, they can't radiate anyone else.

But, if you eat something that is radioactive, you put that internally into yourself, then you become radioactive yourself. So, while the greatest studies indicate that there is no danger of radiating anyone else, there are circumstances which might make someone dangerous to be around. I recall that sometimes women would get radioactive pellets placed in an effort to help them beat cancer. Precautions had to be taken.

So, I wonder what they did to decontaminate those soldiers and all their equipment, or if they just transported them off to Belarus, radioactive dust and all? Even the buses could then be contaminated.

I don't know enough about the transmission of radioactive materials, except what I have seen in movies and what I have recently read. It was very stupid of Russia to allow the soldiers to dig trenches in radioactive soil. It is just further proof that Russia either doesn't care about its troops, or is just ignorant enough to do those stupid things.

[Hekate]

1. Inhale. Whatever's in the air is now inside you. Drink. Whatever's in the water is inside you.

[Chainfire]

2. When I was in the Navy in the early 70s

We prepared and trained for being contaminated by bomb fallout. It basically amounted to stripping getting rid of the clothing and showering to remove the contaminants. We could then return to our duty stations and carry out our jobs while we waited to become sick and die from the radiation positioning. Nothing motivates a man like knowing that he has been shot with a bullet that is going to kill him two weeks later. I seem to remember that there was a particular soap that they would have hosed us down with, but it has been a long time and I could be mistaken.

I suspect that the big problem with the Russians at Chernobyl is that they breathed radioactive dust, kicked up by the vehicles that they were traveling in. I don't think that you can shower that off. I wouldn't think that they would be dangerous to others around them.

[uponit7771]

4. +1,

[Hekate]

3. Regarding medical radioactive pellets: special care must be taken for whoever the patient lives with

Lots of cautionary behavior.

Because it is, essentially, poison. Useful in small doses for some things, but dangerous.

As for what the troops knew: nothing. They were lied to about their mission. They were undoubtedly born after the Chernobyl disaster. They live in a dictatorship where spreading news the ruler doesn’t want spread can get you 15 years in prison.

I doubt their immediate officers knew much either — comments from American military indicate that the system of NCOs we have does not exist in Russia. That and the thing about 15 years in the slammer.

And Chernobyl? The entire area is still deadly and will be just about forever. Does Putin the Poisoner care? What do you think?

[old as dirt]

5. Acceptable Risks by Charlie King about the 1957 Yucca Flats Big Smokey Atomic Test

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6. TY

Good song. Very sobering.

[dsharp88]

7. Capitalistic oligarchs like Putin and republicans don't care about people

They only want more money. Human lives have no meaning to them. They’ll allow a million Covid deaths to open their communities without masks or bothering to provide vaccines and an organized rollout plan. Soldiers are disposable commodities. Nothing more.

[Meowmee]

8. If you are exposed to radiation

You should remove all clothing etc. and place them in a plastic bag and shower. Once you do that you will not be able to expose others in most cases I believe.

https://www.livescience.com/13444-radiation-exposure-contagious.html