Talk:List of orphan source incidents

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Creating Talk Page

Created talk page. ForDisplayOnly (talk) 02:41, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Expansion

Hey, just wanted to say this page is shaping up very well, with all the new information added! Today, I've been going through making sure relevant terms are linked but also trying to find a balance where it's not overwhelmed by links. At the end of the 1996 incident in Gilan, Iran, it looks like you (I presume @ForDisplayOnly ) were starting another sentence there. Just wanted to point that out so it's not left hanging there. --Kirby777 (talk) 00:44, 29 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the heads up, I appreciate your work improving the article as well! ForDisplayOnly (talk) 16:46, 31 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note on units

I know that measuring radiation doses is iffy at best, but the units used in this list are all over the place (likely reflecting the different units used by the various citations). The total radioactivity of the sources is listed in either curies or becquerels, the absorbed doses are given in rads, rems, and grays, and there are other references to flux in both sieverts/hr and roentgens/hr. Is it at all possible to decide which units to use consistently, and convert the figures for the listings that are in different units? Or is this not possible due to the way absorbed dose etc is measured? Lumberjane Lilly (talk) 22:02, 24 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Done. (Many years ago I had to do a similar job when a university lecturer asked me to preview a book chapter.) Cheers, Bahudhara (talk) 03:35, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Incorrect province for Sasolburg

Sasolburg, Transvaal should be Sasolburg, Orange Free State. Province stayed the same with the 1994 change of government. 41.114.151.127 (talk) 10:06, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I've changed it to Free State. Cheers, Bahudhara (talk) 03:59, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

References for 2024 EMF Camp sources

I'm not too well versed in editing Wikipedia so I figured I'd drop a couple links here for someone who is. This is a post from the person who recovered the sources and this is a post from the EMF Camp info desk confirming there were only two. Stringlapse (talk) 02:20, 10 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Don't worry, it very obviously doesn't belong in this list. I'll remove it once people have had their fun. Ms7821 (talk) 11:21, 12 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

yes, it's stretching the definition of an orphan source. 3.5 uCi of americium 241 is like 5-10 smoke detectors worth. not something you should eat or keep in your pocket, but a far cry from the rest of the things on this page, and not strictly orphaned, since it was probably not regulated to be controlled to begin with 47.55.194.75 (talk) 14:32, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]