SKS radioactive?

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While sitting here in Fukushima City Japan absorbing my hourly 0.280 micoseivert dose of background radiation, I got to thinking. Are SKSes radioactive?

Considering all steel post-1945 is radioactive. And on top of that, most of these rifles come from the Ukraine and were most likely sitting around in 1986...

Just a curious thought. Anyone have a Geiger counter?
 
trebor2880 said:
Rumor has it, that Norinco's are made from the steel of defunked nuclear reactors!b:
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A reactor with all the funk taken out of it? That would just...soulless!:D

I see they're building a new 19,000 ton steel roof for Chernobyl. Damned if I know why. They don't need any roofs at Fukushima so why the heck do they need one at Chernobyl? :confused:
 
A guy I know was gonna start testing produce from Pacific states, like California, for radiation.
I can just picture him in the grocery store with a geiger counter, testing the lettuce, "don't take this one, it's giving off some gamma rays!"

He's interesting to talk to.
 
I'm more worried about the Chinese SKS's than the Russian ones. There was a documentary about nuclear tests a few years back called "Trinity and Beyond". Did anyone else see that video clip of the Chinese training exercise where they are firing SKS from horseback while charging into the dust of the nuclear test? The horses were wearing gas masks too.
 
Just got back from Vegas a week ago. Learned that they are actually giving bus tours of the Nevada atomic test sites. You can't get off the bus but they are not even requiring film badges anymore since the radioactivity has decreased to be not be of concern. Damn, I wanna go. ;)

Grizz
 
RRCo. said:
A reactor with all the funk taken out of it? That would just...soulless!:D

I see they're building a new 19,000 ton steel roof for Chernobyl. Damned if I know why. They don't need any roofs at Fukushima so why the heck do they need one at Chernobyl? :confused:
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because fukishima melt down the stuff is contained.... its containment structure was not destroyed, only damaged

Chernobyl blew up, and it did not have a containment structure to start with. It had what many scientists considered a failed nuclear blast, the only reason it didn't fully go up, the steam explosion from the over heating coolant tank below had knocked the reactor components apart preventing a complete run away that would have ended in a mushroom cloud. As is the blast sprays radioactive material all over europe and caused alpha/beta particle drift around the globe.

its the nature of the russian design: no coolant/control rods = run away reaction and inevitable blast. where as the american/europe designed: no coolant = melt down and reaction stall.
 
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