SrA Private RallyPoint Member 7842348 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Thor missile burned down on launch pad with a nuclear weapon. Furthermore, Thor missile with nuclear weapon was destroyed by the range officer after launch. The latter incident occurred as part of USA atmospheric test program of nuclear weapons. 2022-08-25T11:53:51-04:00 SrA Private RallyPoint Member 7842348

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Thor missile burned down on launch pad with a nuclear weapon. Furthermore, Thor missile with nuclear weapon was destroyed by the range officer after launch. The latter incident occurred as part of USA atmospheric test program of nuclear weapons.

2022-08-25T11:53:51-04:00 2022-08-25T11:53:51-04:00 CSM William Everroad 7844290

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Did they get their exposure levels documented? For the uninitiated:<br />Radiation exposure is measured in millisievert (mSv).<br />A chest X-ray can run 0.2 mSv.<br />Standing next to exposed depleted uranium (DU) can dose you at about 2 mSv per hour.<br />Background radiation in the environment is about 2.4 mSv per year.<br />A CT scan is 10 mSv.<br />Low dose radiation (safeish) falls below 100 mSv (think radiation workers and cancer treatments)<br />Symptoms of Acute Radiation Sickness (ARS) can begin to set in at 200 mSv. ARS manifests usually within a 60 days after exposure. You can recover from ARS.<br />Radiation burns happen at 500 mSv.<br />Brain and Heart functioning become impaired at 1,000 mSv.<br />Acute ARS manifest (nausea, vomiting, internal organ damage) at 1,500 mSv, and long-term damage can be detected within 6 days.<br />4,000 mSv is lethal. For reference, the Chornobyl fire put this off each minute while burning.<br />Short-term exposure is cumulative. There are types of radiation exposure that are cumulative over your lifetime.<br />Distance is a big factor in the amount of exposure. If you go from standing next to exposed DU to double the distance, you take 1/4 of the amount of dose. double it again and you take 1/16, and so on. Shielded DU can be disposed of relatively safely, even if it was exposed and caught fire, you would have to be pretty close to a significant amount for an extended period of time to reach levels that would cause long-term health effects. Not saying it could not happen, but there would be nuclear medicine personnel monitoring the levels of radiation on site and if levels exceeded 100 mSv, everyone should have been tested.

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