[Closed] Scotlands radio active!

If your Going there this week wear lead cape!

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HTH.

Thanks I was in a panic when posting.

Thanks I was in a panic when posting.

What's the panic...

... trundles off to BBC News website

Not a problem, my good Sir. 😉

The organisation's radioactive substances manager, Dr James Gemmill, said: "The concentration of iodine detected is extremely low and is not of concern for the public or the environment.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-12892383

Parts of Glasgow look like they have been hit by a nuclear bomb. A spokesman described the situation as perfectly normal

Should add a certain "je ne sais quoi" to that Weegy atmosphere of chips & lambert & butler <runs..>

Parts of Glasgow look like they have been hit by a nuclear bomb. A spokesman described the situation as perfectly normal

😆

I thought Aberdeen (due to being made of granite, which is vaguely radioactive) and Edinburgh (Castle is built on a huge lump of Uranium ore) had higher background radiation than Glasgow?

Andy

So iodine has a half life of 8 days.
Japan is 6000 miles from the UK.

That's some pretty impressive wind to blow it that far in any sort of detectable quantity...

To carry on the pedantic theme...

Scotlands radio active!

Or: Scotland's radioactive!

Chears me deers!
Just digging out the fallout shelter as we Speke.

Good point. 🙂

Perhaps he meant that several Scotlands have a particularly fit and active radio.

Scotland's radio active!

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has been active for some time. 🙂

Better up the normal dose of Lagavulin then.

I thought this was going to be about a radio DJ aerobics instructor who was taking the challenge to get Scotland thin again.

"Right Scotland, lets get radio active!!"

"and one and two and stretch and lunge and ...."

So iodine has a half life of 8 days.

Upping the pedantry stakes:

Iodine-131 has a half life of 8 days.

Upping the pedantry stakes:

Iodine-131 has a half life of 8 days.

Yes, and after 24 days, there'll still be 12.5% of it left, so I'm sure that it can get about the world ok.
That said, I am kind of surprised that there are detectable quantities.

Basically the BBC ran a documentary some time ago telling us to be scared witless about one terrorist bloke and a suitcase nuclear weapon going off in Croydon or somewhere. However, multiple nuclear meltdowns with some of the worst forms of radioactive material produced near a metropolitan area of around 30million, and the BBC and everyone else are saying no problem! Everything is fine! Carry on with your consumption and borrowing like good little cattle 🙂

So take your pick.

However, multiple nuclear meltdowns

Do you know what a meltdown is?

In any case far less radiation has been released than in a nuclear bomb, even a small one.

However, multiple nuclear meltdowns

Multiples of zero are still zero.

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