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Is the description a joke, or legit? If the latter, is there a source for that claim?
 
And is 4DE really going to come out with a Derpy plush? Because it’s been nearly two years since it was announced, and I suspect the market is now in decline.
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Fucking beat me to it. Good choice.
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I was on Der Spiegel a couple days ago, or close to a week - around the time after Chernobyl’s meltdown anniversary - and they put up an article about German researches in four different German universities getting together to study the effects of low-dosage radiation on the human body. Namely: the reported health benefits of basking in the alpha glow of radon to alleviate arthritis pains and the like as a spa treatment.
 
To get it out of the way early: they do acknowledge the beneficial effects of the low levels of radiation you encounter when sitting around in the radon-choked tunnels or radon-infused water or whatever people bathe in for this. A survey with people who went to do it turned back reports of pain lessened and I think a general sense of ease. When they got an idea of what was going on (the radiation lowered blood pressure and got the immune system to calm the fuck down so it wasn’t attacking joints), they repeated it on mice and got the same result.
 
While they caution that we don’t yet know what’s the breaking point between a “safe” dose of radiation and what is not, they also mentioned that in the grand scheme of things it’s incredibly difficult to isolate the cause for cancer in such a carcinogen-packed world.
 
By that, I could go stand inside Chernobyl NPP and get my dose of maybe-cancer as a non-smoker and go about my day. That is provided I don’t start getting bad daughters out of my cells the moment I step out, as I’ve gathered it can be a roll of the dice that way.
 
 
@Ferrotter
 
I got a friend whose in the Navy nuclear program and based on the way he talks about nuclear things I imagine he’ll be going into the civilian nuclear world when he’s out; he’s certainly not planning on re-enlisting for additional submarine duty anytime soon. But recently we’ve been talking about stuff like this. Namely because I wanr to introduce nuclear physics to a fantasy Minecraft nation RP server we’re both (sorta) on (for me it’s wanting to fuck with all these kids who have uncontrolled magic, and I’ve long rejected all of that). So we’ve been talking about emission sources and together trying to work out an appropriate time and story line on how it might be discovered, researched, and brought to a point of use.
 
We went over alpha radiation pretty heavily since I wanted to go through the “discovery” of radioactivity through radon. A lot of the common sorts of radiation it seems is so meek that really the best protection is to not be naked, it’s pretty fun.
 
Did enjoy the rest though.
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What you need to block radiation depends on the kind of radiation it is. For alpha you just need to contain it so you don’t accidentally ingest isotopes from it; alpha radiation won’t hurt you unless the isotopes are already inside you when the particles are emitted. Alpha particles can’t penetrate even a single layer of dead skin cells. But it wears out its containment so you’ll need to re-bag it periodically. Most beta particles are also blocked by a single layer of dead skin cells, so you mostly just have to keep the beta emitting isotopes outside you. Although there are some high-energy beta particles that will penetrate skin, like [32-P]. And beta-emitting isotops of carbon and sulfur tend to be turned to gasses by biological processes pretty readily, so containment includes activated charcoal to absorb the offgassing. Breathing it would put it inside you as readily as eating it. For the higher energy beta emitters, surround them with quarter-inch Plexiglas. Ionizing photon radiation sources like x-ray and gamma emitters need to be stopped with pure mass. So if you want small shielding, heavy metals like lead or uranium are good, although a thicker (but possibly lighter) layer of steel can also work. Or for lower cost, a few feet of concrete. Even air works if you have enough of it; about 300 yards from even an atom bomb, you won’t get a fatal dose of x-rays. You’ll be incinerated at that range, but it won’t be the radiation that hurts you. But never use metal as shielding for beta emitters; it does block beta particles, but it gives off x-rays as it does so. Then there’s neutron radiation. That requires sheer numbers of atomic nuclei between you and the source, and heavy atoms that absorb neutrons tend to decay again and give off radiation. (It’s oversimplified, but uranium + neutron = plutonium, for example. Using a shielding that turns into plutonium is not good for you.) So, low-mass atoms are generally best, usually ultra high density polyethylene, wax, or water. Boron is also good because it has a unique decay after absorbing a neutron, where essentially none of the secondary decay products are very dangerous. Large amounts (like 13 feet thick) of concrete or limestone also works because of the water hydrated minerals they contain.
 
And lastly, accelerated heavy metal ions. Best just to avoid them, which is usually easy because they aren’t found on Earth outside of particle colliders. Some of the natural ones created eons ago by supernovas do hit astronauts. These things have such high energy levels (literally, a single atom with the kinetic energy of 100 mph fastball in some cases) that they go through spaceships and people and out the other side. Astronauts can see when they impact the visual cortex of their brains, and every neuron in the path of each one is killed. (It’s not remotely possible to shield Earth-launched spaceships because of the sheer mass of shielding that would have to be launched to do any good.) If you can’t avoid them, several feet of water can stop most of them, usually. They don’t get down to us because several miles of air works too. (There’s some evidence that their energy level is so high, their collisions in the upper atmosphere locally reverse part of the Big Bang, and the explosions sometimes occur in only 2 dimensions.)
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Oh yeah, I was joking. The protocols I listed would be excessive for a nuclear reactor, never mind a plush with some trace amounts of material that might raise your chance of cancer by 0.5% over your lifetime if you rub it in your face.
 
You could buy this plush, snuggle it constantly, and you’d still be more likely to die of a car accident or unrelated heart attack than by radiation-induced cancer, never mind radiation sickness.
 
People are way too scared of radiation. It’s spooky and mysterious to them, and the unknown and “weird” is always scary, so they’re scared.
 
But yeah, I’ve actually toured a nuclear reactor, before. It was a university research reactor, not a powerplant, but it was still very much a nuclear reactor used for research and generating medical materials (plenty of medical materials need to be radiated to work. Can’t recall specifics off the top of my head). We stood on top of a metal catwalk a few feet above the pool the reactor was in, and looked straight down into it. Even when they pull the rods out of the reactor (fuel rods still in the bottom of the pool, though, of course), it’s still a perfectly safe place to be.
 
You do, in fact, have to go down to SCUBA depths (>40 feet or so) before radiation becomes an issue. Because of all the shielding everywhere, where we were, we were getting less radiation than you’re getting right now, just from the natural environment, despite being in the reactor room.
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Now I’m radioactive! That can’t be good!”
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So store it in an aquarium full of water!…
In a shed at the far corner of your back yard.
50 feet underground.
XD
 
That may not be even necessary.
 
I’m not one to know ratios but I’m sure however much Derpy is contaminated for an Aquarium full of water will be more than enough to shield any radioactive emissions that may or may not be coming off her. Hell, apperantly the giant storage pools they put radioactive waste in at nuclear power plants is way more than enough to shield anything on the surface from the radioactive materials underwater, you’d have to swim to maybe within double arm’s reach to be hit with radiation, but those pools are also pretty damn deep you may need to be a trained diver or need a scuba suit.
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Dammit. I knew it will show up here.
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Obviously fake. A Derpy plush wouldn’t glow no matter how much radiation you exposed it to! And if it were glowing from the inside like that, it wouldn’t cast a shadow.
 
Clearly, the truth is that is a Fluttershy plush.
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…Are y’all turning this into a “TOYS POISONED IN RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL STORAGE SCANDAL!” National Enquirer article because the uploader made a joke about a Derpy plush being canceled?
 
Besides, everyone knows it was the Build-A-Bear Derpy plushes that were accidentally filled with stuffing that was exposed to illegal nuclear medical waste in China.  
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Pff, Derpy 11-inch.
 
Sorry.
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At least we have a retailer actually calling her “Derpy” instead of “Muffins” or some variation on “That Nameless Pony”.
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So store it in an aquarium full of water!…
 
In a shed at the far corner of your back yard.
 
50 feet underground.
 
XD
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She’s probably just covered in radioactive dust. Push comes to shove just give the plush a shampooed bath. Similarily water kind of has the ability to insulate radioactivity; I forget the full term but it may not be relevant.
 
If you really want and depending on what it’s contaminated with you set it aside and let it undergo decay. But washing it is really the best bet.
 
That is given my understanding.
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So does this mean 4DE isn’t making Derpy plushies period, or do they just have to start over from scratch? I’m hoping it’s not the former. I’ve been waiting over a year for 4DE’s Derpy plushies to come out.
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Derpy is now an artifact.
 
I shall buy it and sell her to Sidorovich or Beard and make mad rubles.
 
Or maybe I’ll figure out what her trade-off is and go to The Zone. Together we shall infiltrate the CNPP and see the Wish Granter.