Fire extinguished at Ukraine nuclear power plant, Europe's largest

Re:Fire extinguished at Ukraine nuclear power plant, Europe'... by Gare on Thursday March 03, 2022 @08:09PM (#30549293)

0.1 microsieverts (uSv) per hour is normal background radiation rate. Right now in my apartment (far from Ukraine) the dose rate is 0.12 uSv/h.

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Re:Fire extinguished at Ukraine nuclear power plant, Europe'... by heavyset_go on Thursday March 03, 2022 @08:30PM (#30549462)

Is there a map service you're using to find the radiation levels at your apartment?

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Re:Fire extinguished at Ukraine nuclear power plant, Europe'... by Gare on Thursday March 03, 2022 @08:37PM (#30549520)

Nope, it's from Geiger counter on my desk.

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Re:Fire extinguished at Ukraine nuclear power plant, Europe'... by dylan604 on Thursday March 03, 2022 @09:35PM (#30549951)

Good lord, I love the understatedness of this comment.

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Re:Fire extinguished at Ukraine nuclear power plant, Europe'... by kortilla on Thursday March 03, 2022 @10:12PM (#30550207)

It’s a Geiger counter. It’s cheaper than having an oscilloscope, which wouldn’t be “understated” either.

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Re:Fire extinguished at Ukraine nuclear power plant, Europe'... by dylan604 on Thursday March 03, 2022 @11:30PM (#30550717)

Do YOU have a geiger counter on your desk?

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Re:Fire extinguished at Ukraine nuclear power plant, Europe'... by JohnBooty on Friday March 04, 2022 @12:58AM (#30551202)

Well, I just ordered one, which was not a thing I expected to do when I woke up today.

We'll see if it actually ships; seems lots of people have the same idea right now.

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Re:Fire extinguished at Ukraine nuclear power plant, Europe'... by ClumsyPilot on Thursday March 03, 2022 @10:02PM (#30550146)

The seem to be like £100 on amazon.

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Re:Fire extinguished at Ukraine nuclear power plant, Europe'... by dylan604 on Thursday March 03, 2022 @10:10PM (#30550195)

Yeah, but the fact that a Ukranian actually has one. I was going to make an "In Soviet Russia..." style joke, but a quick reading of the room suggested not good timing.

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Re:Fire extinguished at Ukraine nuclear power plant, Europe'... by kortilla on Thursday March 03, 2022 @10:13PM (#30550217)

Commenter literally said “far from Ukraine”. What are you talking about?

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Re:Fire extinguished at Ukraine nuclear power plant, Europe'... by dylan604 on Thursday March 03, 2022 @10:20PM (#30550291)

oh, you're right. i totally missed the word far on initial read. totally changes the everything.

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Re:Fire extinguished at Ukraine nuclear power plant, Europe'... by Gare on Friday March 04, 2022 @06:05AM (#30553135)

To be fair, I am around 500 km from the westernmost border, so not that far in American terms. We were affected by the Chernobyl disaster.

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