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I remember my senior advisor student tellimg me a story how she went to industrial lab internship in a hospital with these things.

They had their own little collider there. They made synthetic radioactive cocaine to study something in the brain.

They didn’t measure the drug dosage, they just filled the syringe and waited holding it near a radiation counter for radiation to drop to desired level.

Once she spilled something and dipped her hand in it. She was told to hold a hand away rfom the body for a day - on a train ride home, in shower, in sleep - to protect internal organs. Next day, radiation was gone, down to natural level.

These things are amazing.

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Tomassci@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
“synthetic radioactive cocaine” is a hell of a phrase.

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- Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  It’s pretty rad.
  
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- SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Many drugs are made as radiochemicals to see how they distribute in the body. It’s mostly the liver. Some drugs work specifically as radiochemicals to bring ionizing radiation to tumors to kill them.
  
  fusionpharma.com/targeted-alpha-therapeutics/
  
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  - massive_bereavement@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    That poor poor liver, taking the brunt of our misdeeds.
    
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    Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    To be fair, though, that’s its literal raison d’être.
    
    A liver complaining about dealing with harmful stuff would be like a dung beetle complaining about having to roll shit around 🤷
    
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- Blaster_M@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  new band name
  
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- MutantTailThing@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  No cheap ass crack for me. I splurge for the good stuff.
  
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  - acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    No cheap ass-crack for me. I splurge for the good stuff.
    
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    fartographer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    You mean my gluteal bisector?
    
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- Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Would also make for a hell of a band name if not for the first two words sounding clunky together 🤔
  
  Nuked coke, illegitimate?
  Irradiated faux-coke?
  Nuked Fauxke? 🤷
  
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  - 5in1k@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Rad Synthcain, a club level touring electronic artist.
    
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  - alzymologist@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    www.scho-ka-kola.de/homepage-english.html Totally particle accelerator targets
    
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janus2@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
That liquid must have had a hell of an ability to be absorbed into skin if she wasn’t able to remove the contamination by just washing her hand.

The fact that they let her leave the controlled area makes me think the activity was low enough that holding her hand away from her was probably overkill. If you’re contaminated enough that it’s a risk to your organs, most radiation safety officers aren’t going to let you leave the controlled area lol

At the radiopharm manufactory I used to work at, we had a guy accidentally inject his finger with the QC sample. Fortunately it was low enough activity that he was able to leave by the end of his shift. It was really stupid that the QC sample syringe was capped with a needle instead of a blunt syringe cap, but changing the manufacturing protocol to allow capping with a new type of device would have required FDA oversight.

The first thing I always did during my QC testing was remove the needle entirely, fuuuuck that.

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- Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I’m sometimes slightly radioactive for medical reasons. Most people will be fine with a certain dosis, but little kids and pregnant people (well, their foetus) won’t. So they tell you to stay away from people because you don’t know who’s pregnant. Maybe that contributes.
  
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  - janus2@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    “stay away from people, especially children” thanks doc I’m already always doing that haha
    
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- alzymologist@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Oh, I forgot to mention that my story was happening in Moscow. Radiation safety rules there are… unusual. You get slapped for handling a thorium chunk in an explicitly hot environmental lab outside of fume hood, then dump ion exchange resin flush down the drain. You get strict access control in Kurchatov institute with weeks prior to entry to submit documents just to get to a meeting room, but then the same area has radioactive waste dumped between the trees in forested area (yes, it’s in center of the city with many times more people than my whole country).
  
  And then it’s regular ALARA. For that girl, that is, screw them those bystanders on the train. Clearly the fancy hospital with all that gear was one of those damned places where government and oligarchs get patched up and regular people are only experimental test samples, and they made no secret out of that.
  
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  - janus2@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    this explains a lot, lol. especially the “your hand is hot enough to worry about but sure go ahead get on a crowded train”
    
    As Long As Radiation AintNearMe lol
    
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- MehBlah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I once spent several hours stuck in decon on a reactor shutdown because I had breathed in … Its been thrity years… I think boron gas from the reactor. It had a short half life measured in seconds but I got enough dose that it took a while for it to drop down low enough for me to be passed by the machine. Nothing to do in decon but stand around. No restrooms, food or water. No chairs either. It could have been worse. One guy got a hot particle on them. A microscopic piece of fuel rod. It finally ended up his nethers and they used duct tape pull it off. Hair and all. He left in a set of scrubs with his boots and everything else taken.
  
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  - janus2@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Ok that is a rough time. Every time I got contaminated I was always insanely glad it was only a 2 hour half life (and that each time, I managed to remove it by ditching clothes/shoes or washing my skin so I wouldn’t be trapped in the lab).
    
    We also had some very small amounts of long-lived isotopes that would end up in our waste stream and have to be found by playing hot/cold with the pancake. Oh and most of the contaminated items were needles and broken glass. I was so fuckin scared of accidentally stabbing myself with a LLRM sharp 😭
    
    Oh also I broke a pancake tube by letting it get stabbed and Ludlum took like 3 months to get it back to us and the other Model 3 was shitty uuuuuuuugh
    
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    MehBlah@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I once forgot I had a contaminated sharpie from the hot shed. It had a fairly high level of contamination and probably shouldn’t have been handed out. it fell out of my anti-c’s hitting the leg of my scrubs and both of my boots at decon. They were not happy with me and I lost my scrub bottoms and boots. I did the walk of shame from the sally port back to the locker room.
    
    Fun times, sorta. It was good money though. I was in a union with a bunch of old timers(in their forties and early fifties) who built the unit and they were a treasure trove of knowledge about that place. I’m glad I quit because all of those guys died before they were sixty. Too many chemicals from different plants we also worked.
    
    Three people my age died before they were thirty when they got exposed to something at a chemical plant. All of them died from massive organ failure and tumors withing three years of each other. They were all doing some cutting in a supposedly cleared high pressure storage tank. When they cut through in one place there was a void filled with something. It covered them and they were cleaned up and laid off. They were not in a union so they had no way to complain It was not a pretty thing to witness.
    
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- Aqarius@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I kinda wonder if it was a “Tell her to keep her arm raised until tomorrow, it’ll teach her to be more careful next time.” situation.
  
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