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itishappy

I was imaginging insane nuclear laser drills, but...

> The capsule, part of a gauge used to measure the density of iron ore...

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/1/31/australian-nuclear-...

More info:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Australian_radioactive...

Terrifying Wikipedia rabbit hole:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_orphan_source_incident...

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There's an interesting YouTube channel called Plainly Difficult that goes over industrial accidents, many of them nuclear/radiation in nature. (https://youtube.com/@PlainlyDifficult)

Also medical radiation machines around the time that

I love his radiation incident videos and it's sad he seems to have run out of them. The structural failure and trainwreck videos just don't scratch the same itch for me.

I find it actually quite relieving that he doesn't have any new nuclear incidents to document.

Fun fact: one of the few industrial applications of nuclear fusion reactors today is as pulsed neutron generators for excitation gamma ray spectroscopy in oil exploration. https://www.slb.com/-/media/files/drilling/brochure/neoscope...

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