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Sunday, 31 August 2014
Mente et malleo: by thought and hammer [2014-08-31 06:32:49]
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The last 4 days I have been doing a neutron diffraction experiments at Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO). It has been quite an experience, a very cool one actually. I have been wearing a portable radiation dose monitor, taking almost hourly full body radiation scans every day and operating a neutron beam. However, so
People might get the false impression from this blog that I underestimate the risk of ionizing radiation. That is not the case. Radiation is dangerous. It is also well understood, and ubiquitous. A natural 400 KeV gamma ray will do just as much damage as a natural one, so treating the risks from them differently doesn’t make a whole lot of scientific sense.That being said, one needs
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