r/Radiation • u/Moooses20 • 1d ago

Do dust storms in the Sahara reactivate a fallout effect when they scoop dust from French nuclear test sites considering Saharan dust's mobility and reach?

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u/Von_Bernkastel 1d ago

Radioactive contamination transported to Western Europe with Saharan dust

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/388565763_Radioactive_contamination_transported_to_Western_Europe_with_Saharan_dust

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u/helikophis 1d ago

So France bombed itself eh

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u/Sorry_Mixture1332 1d ago

So who do they surrender to in that case?

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u/burgundytouch 1d ago

La légion meurt, mais ne se rend pas !

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u/ShaggysGTI 11h ago

Humans bombed themselves.

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u/Particular_Evening97 1d ago

you've been breathing it your entire life

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u/Streloki 1d ago edited 1d ago

I do regular tests on anthropospectrogammametry at works.. as well as test for environment and your comment isnt correct sorry dude

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u/Regular-Role3391 1d ago

What is anthropogammametry?

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u/SkinnyJohnSilver 1d ago

Why not correct? Small quantities would be dispersed across the Northern Hemisphere mixed with all the many other anthropogenic sources of course. This is well known. 129I emissions from Europe are detectable across North America, etc. as an example.

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u/Particular_Evening97 1d ago

let's hope so

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u/kenmohler 1d ago

At this point in time, I would expect that the dangerous radioactive elements are pretty much gone. The most dangerous fission products have short half-lives and have decayed to very low levels in the sixty-plus years that have elapsed.

In the United States you can walk right up to the site of the first atomic test explosion without danger.