I vaguely remember a study back in the 1970s questioning why airline workers weren't getting cancer at rates predicted by the atomic bomb survivor evidence-based models you mentioned. Those models broke down at low enough exposure levels, but actually collecting enough data to know took decades...
This 5.5%:
"One sievert carries with it a 5.5% chance of eventually developing fatal cancer based on the linear threshold model."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sievert
Per the article that model has both lower and upper bounds outside of which Sieverts no longer make sense as a unit of measure...
I stand enlightened far beyond the original question, which is just how I like it. Thanks to all of you for sharing your knowledge. (I'll keep lurking on the thread in case you guys keep talking, heh heh.)
Interesting!
If "poison" is wrong -- and I see why, Fe-56 doesn't "poison" the fusion of other elements simply by not itself fusing -- what word(s) can I use to describe the slowing down of nuclear reactions concurrent with the buildup of Fe-56? Could I say that Fe-56 is the "spent fuel" of...
Per mfb's answer all species use the same, human-calibrated Sievert. This means each has its own %-chance, whatever that may turn out to be. For humans it's 5.5%.
Thanks to mfb for your answer.
I don't really know anything about analog electronics. FM as a data transmission medium was interesting to me because the "error correction" feedback, which in a normal clock would true the oscillator to the crystal, is where the data pops out. I speculated that might sometimes cause problems...
Fascinating.
Is it accurate to summarize by saying Ni-62 is rare because the chain of stellar reactions which cause element formation passes through Fe-56 first, and because Fe-56 poisons nuclear reactivity ANY elements formed "downstream" of Fe-56, including Ni-62, are going to end up much...
I learned about modulation index distortion from Tech99. It's the very first conversation in this thread.
In the example he gave he demonstrates how constants in FM broadcasts need special encoding techniques. If you simply drop a constant onto an FM signal the receiver won't extract it...
From the link:
"Though the championship of nuclear binding energy is often attributed to 56Fe, it actually comes in a close third."
Nobody has all the answers like you guys have the answers. It's amazing so many of you are gathered in one place.
When I asked, "Where would the energy come...
Is there then a rat-sievert? Either every animal for which we have data has its own 5.5% per sievert chance or [coincidence notwithstanding] it's a different % for all non-humans so that the same dose is the same sievert count regardless of species. But it can't be both.
Does every species get its own 5.5%-calibrated sievert?
It's morbid to ask, I know, but given that Chernobyl is full of dogs I have to ask whether there is such a thing as a dog-sievert?
I had a burning curiosity from the time I read the theory about what would happen if the receiver carrier drifted off the transmitter carrier, which seemed theoretically possible in certain edge cases. Then Tech99 explained it all, using the edgiest of all edge cases, a constant fed into the...
Right, this was what led me to ask about what I've learned is called "modulation index distortion", when the receiver's reference frequency drifts from the actual frequency then is suddenly jerked back into alignment. The actual example Tech99 gave was a lot more subtle, a straight DC voltage...
Why would I pirate papers when I can pester you guys with questions instead? 8D
Hey ... maybe I'm pirating you guys and selling the info to the highest bidder! The awkward Dunning-Krueger quality of my questions is but a clever ruse ...
There's actually a nugget (err, doubloon) of truth to the...