• HootinNHollerin@quokk.au
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    16 hours ago

    Thanks for feedback for a sense of severity. If I understand correctly, dosimeter have different time constants and I think this one was pretty cheap/slow, meaning the actual level is higher. The instructions said you have to hold it there for a minute for the reading to be accurate. We didn’t do but 10-15 seconds to get the 11 as I didn’t wanna be around it anymore

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      18 hours ago

      It was a quote from the TV miniseries Chernobyl. The reading was the highest the dosimeter could measure, so the actual value could have been (and was) much higher. They also underestimated the impact if that reading had been accurate.