I was bored in computer science so I started to do some research and math to see how much plutonium and thorium it would take to kill a person from radiation. Which I was doing to make a design for a real life gamma gun from my favorite video game, fallout 4.
It takes 350rems in total to kill a person with a derect hit. So from there I did some basic easy science and math to do the math I'll show below.
So with the total mass from both the thorium and plutonium, only 7.36% of it is plutonium which is necessary to power thorium.
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*Sorry for the circle, my friend got anger because I was doing that instead of class work :sweat_smile:
I did some more math here..
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My result ended up being that it would take 1.093 meters cubed of thorium(92.64%) + plutonium(7.36%) to kill a man, which would of coarse produce 350 rems.
Later I started to make a bad design of that gamma gun but I'll show you that later lol.
Edit: keep in mind that per 5 feet squared it decreases by 7 rems, so after a while it won't affect you anymore in a deadly way.
Comments (8)
I think a gun would be easier.
Well I needed to know this math before I could make it. I couldn't find any online sources to give me the answer. Which could also mean my math is inaccurate, it was just a mini fun project to do on the side though.
Reply to: :maple_leaf: ÆRÎ :maple_leaf:
That was a test comment. I knew a true scientist would reply with an answer like this. XD. Gg fr finding out the answer by the way.
That’s so amazing and smart, just remind me not to get on your bad side. And I agree with @FmForest — somebody working as a doctor or maybe in a power plant (I wouldn’t know) could grow a tolerance to radiation and would need more. And sometimes, radiation causes cells to mutate into cancer cells, killing them over time of course but not quickly.
Yeah, of course, the gamma gun I was deg was designed to fire 200 rems/s in vapor form. So, in 3 seconds any person could die.
Take note that it also depends from person to person......
true, that was for the average person, but elderly, young, and ill people don't have the type of skin cells designed to fight off that amount of rems. And some people who are used to absorbing large doses or radiation can withstand much more.
Reply to: :maple_leaf: ÆRÎ :maple_leaf:
I agree