Whenever I hear about radiation I feel like the dumbest person on earth... I'm scared as fuck of being exposed to it. I know a bit about it, but reading or watching materials about early experimentation and disasters turned me into a complete conspiracy theorist, specially considering, that I'm in the armed forces right now.
I would like to know a few things which are hard to research.
>How much knowledge about exposure and radiation sickness do/did people involved in tests/disasters possess?
I had to take an x-ray this year and the nurse doing it didn't initially give me a lead apron and she got kind of annoyed when I asked for one. I wasn't sure if I was just paranoid and technology had moved on, or if she didn't take it serious. It was my first one since over a decade, but she didn't know about that. Stuff like this makes me really unsure about not the obvious stuff like the Bikini Atoll victims, but rather the Chernobyl and 3 mile personnel, the cleanup team and so on)
>When did awareness for that get widely spread among people working around radiation?
>How shielded are control rooms in older plants?
In movies like China syndrome they are safe spaces, but is that always the case?
>How does radiation puncture structures? When trying to escape it, what's smart to do
>How effective are measures against radiation, like chemical scrubbing and suits?
I know it's a bit allover the place, sry for that.
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