$100 bills, contaminated with radioactives? …the hell?
:eek:
Could Al Qida be coating the green sugar “hot” stuff?
Or is this something new?
This is actually part of Obama’s stimulus package. The last thing we need right now is for Americans to be hoarding money; we need them to get out there and spend, so we can put everyone back to work and get out of this recession thingy. And no one will want to stuff their mattress with greenbacks if they think maybe those suckers are radioactive.
So what exactly are the country’s 3.5 million citizens supposed to be looking our for? A US banknote with a soft green glow or something? Or do Lithuanians routinely carry Geiger counters around with them?
Maybe someone took Larry Niven at his word.
Goldfinger did it with much more style.
I’m no scientist, but the idea of a 100 being radioactive because of being near Chernobyl not on the date of the accident sounds ridiculous. You can take tours of the place now (though not that close to the power plant, of course). And lacking any particles of radioactive material, wouldn’t this single bill be rather harmless? Sample disks of ceramic embedded with light amounts of some rather nasty nuclear materials were used in my high school science class (dry ice and some lightly radioactive material makes for some cool looking effects). Even those wouldn’t be harmful to you unless you swallowed one and it got stuck somewhere along the way… for like a decade. And those actually had bits of radioactive material in them. What could some cotton do? Wouldn’t it be burned or discolored if it were irradiated with enough nuclear energy to be dangerous?
Maybe it’s become less radioactive in the four years since that article came out.