▲ | dividedbyzero 3 days ago | |||||||
Hypothetically speaking, how useful would something like that be in a nuclear weapon fallout scenario? Can such a contraption detect the important isotopes and give the user an accurate idea of the level of danger they're in, does that change over time as isotope composition changes through decay? | ||||||||
▲ | 9dev 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
Are you willing to bet your life on it? | ||||||||
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▲ | BetterGeiger 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
tl;dr not useful. To make a long story short, max range is very important and these cheap tubes saturate easily, and they don't give energy-corrected dose rate. They also cannot do gamma spec (isotope identification), but that is not needed for a fallout scenario because fallout contains basically every isotope under the sun, no need to do any gamma spec. I have a very long detailed video about this topic on my youtube channel BetterGeiger |