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Originally Posted by redpoint5
Why are you researching your way out of not doing it?
The first people who started fooling around with ionizing radiation (Marie Curie) took no precautions because they didn't know they needed to. Practically every injury type was more common in the 1950s because they knew less then, and didn't have the safety culture of today's standards.
In the future, they will look back to the standards of today and think we were savages. Shooting ionizing radiation into someone as a therapy; that will look like bloodletting to them.
We wear dosimeters to track cumulative exposure and have access to the results. The therapists work outside of the treatment vault, and it is sealed by a several ton concrete door (the rest of the vault is thick concrete too). The gun is aimed laterally from the therapists, so they are never even in line with directed radiation.
The "10x background radiation" limit is simply that, the limit they decided was the threshold for safety. It doesn't mean therapists are all receiving the limit. I'd be surprised if they hit even 2x background on average.
While you're in research mode, look up "electron trees".
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You seem to have strong feelings about this, do you want to discuss it further?
I keep trying to find another SLP in my preferred dating app. I started chatting with one, but she disappeared.
A programmer also disappeared.
A lady from my hometown (in California) disappeared.
Virtually everyone interesting disappears!
(if they ever match with me in the first place).
I saw an attorney and a lady I recognize from television, but did we match?
No...t yet...
I just saw Jenni, a Rad Tech, so I will let you know if I have the opportunity to ask when she became radicalized.