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Old 3rd Oct 2020, 09:58
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Radiation risk

I have done my fair share of QRA's at Honington, but was also a member of a six man "Special Safety Team" that were on standby in case a weapon was involved in a crash. It would not trigger a nuclear explosion, but would more than likely set off the HE element & fracture the "physics package" on an A-Bomb that would contain enriched uranium & on a H-Bomb, that would contain plutonium. We were issued with hermaticlt sealed plastic suits, similar to the ones seen at the Novochok attack in Salsbury. We knew that we would be irradiated, but if we could get in there quick enough& do our job Then get out, we might just survive. The good thing was that the suits stopped us from inhaling radioactive particles which would cause a very nasty death within days. Luckily, we were never called out.
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