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Originally Posted by After Shock Media
If that was the case then why when I am gunna get an MRI or something, do they cover my head and jewels in a lead blanket, inject me with some odd fluid in a strange metal vial, while wearing what appear to be lead lined flak jackets and then retreat behind a one foot wall and use a microphone to talk to me?
I think even a small nuke would cause radiation issues with people.
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MRI’s don’t use radiation, they use a strong magnetic field w/radiofrequency waves. They like to use those on your junk so that future little bob doles and calista flockharts can be born. X-rays and stuff like that… they are focused radiation so I guess they want to be more cautious (but I’d say this has a lot more to do with lawsuits than anything else). Brief exposure to x-rays only account for 15 or 16% of annual exposure to the average person from radiation, over 50% of the radiation we are exposed to yearly comes out from the ground in form of radon gas.
While I’ll agree getting an x-ray would be much safer than any tactical nuke the tinier nukes are only 100 sticks of TNT in energy output, there’s simply no way something that small is going to cause much fallout. Sure it’ll be detectable (as the area exposed will be in the thousands of times greater than ambient radiation) but its ability to harm human life is going to be extremely minimal minus the intended area it blows up at.