Back to me again. I’m sorry my radioactive physics game is weak and I had to speculatively look it up. That’s a lot of downvotes, yet no one decided to share the math themselves.

I asked my toddler about the radiation and she said “nana” and then with emphasis “nana” once more.

The downvotes are because our two methods of finding an answer are roughly equally likely to returning a reliable answer.

Mine is slightly better for the climate, maybe. That will likely change as she grows up and uses up more resources. I’ll ask her to do the math on that one later, she is busy eating a book right now.

If it’s actively glowing blue, I don’t think it’s safe to handle.

I asked Chat GPT:

Approximate unshielded dose rates:

At 1 m: ≈ 5.2×10^4 Sv/h (≈51,800 Sv/h) — fatal essentially instantaneously (seconds or less).

At 3 m: ≈ 5.8×10^3 Sv/h — fatal within seconds.

At 10 m: ≈ 5.18×10^2 Sv/h — fatal within tens of seconds.

At 30 m: ≈ 5.8×10^1 Sv/h — severe, life‑threatening in minutes.

At 100 m: ≈ 5.2 Sv/h — dangerous; a few hours would produce fatal/serious acute radiation syndrome.

(For perspective: an acute whole‑body dose of ~4–5 Sv often causes death without intensive medical care; 1 Sv already causes significant radiation sickness.)

These are conservative, point‑source, unshielded estimates for whole‑body dose from the gammas. Being closer, or in contact, or staying in the field increases dose proportionally.

Back to me again. I’m sorry my radioactive physics game is weak and I had to speculatively look it up. That’s a lot of downvotes, yet no one decided to share the math themselves.

Somebody casted Repair on the rod

I assume “danger” and “drop & run” would be straightforward enough, but does casting comprehend languages cause the wizard to understand the concept of radiation (or cobalt, or how large a ‘curie’ is)?

I assume “danger” and “drop & run” would be straightforward enough, but does casting comprehend languages cause the wizard to understand the concept of radiation (or cobalt, or how large a ‘curie’ is)?

I’d personally translate it to the closest word they have.

If I decided they didn’t have a word that was directly equivalent, in this case I’d use the closest word, “light-emitting”.

You’re not getting downvoted. ChatGPT is getting downvoted, and you just happened to be in the way.

These guys, the 2nd google link after AI, say that a 3540 Ci/130 TBq source would be around 500 Sv/h at 30 cm. Even Wikipedia says 45 Sv/h at 1m

“cancer-light”

What if it was stored in a fridge

Disease-light might be the best medieval equivalent, actually.

There’s always a relevant xkcd.

If it’s actively glowing blue it means it’s under water producing Cherenkov radiation and the water should shield you from the alpha particles.

If it’s actively glowing blue it means it’s under water producing Cherenkov radiation and the water should shield you from the alpha particles.

That is a really good question…

I feel like radiation should have some sort of translatable element as a generic radiant danger, but for the rest… if it doesn’t make sense without context in the source language, does it make sense after ‘comprehend language’? Kinda feels like we need a ‘comprehend science’ or something if they wanted to grasp the idea of specific elements and units of measure.

i cast mending on the pile of lead, giving me a solid cubic foot of weapons grade plutonium.