Well, the neutrons would get moderated by the water in the body rather well… i’m thinking the elements being essentially dissolved in moderator should make it worse overall.
I wonder how much activity would remain in the corpse after a week. To qualify as “short lived waste”, the body would need to have less than 400 KBq/Kg of >30 years half life isotopes: http://www.iaea.org/ns/tutorials/regcontrol/intro/glossaryw_z.htm#W29 . I don’t know what are the regulation for corpses though.
edit: speaking of which, other thing that’s very fishy about “cold fusion”, especially expanded to include transmutation of nickel, is that it never produces radioactive isotopes. On one hand you have those ridiculously high power outputs, on other hand not even a very small fraction of energy comes in form of gamma rays or high energy particles.
If I believed in cold fusion, I’d be experimenting in middle of nowhere, in a basement of a shed, remote viewing only, wearing a dosimeter, with a radiation alarm and so on edit: In fact one of my friends likes to mess with high voltage, and he got a dosimeter and everything for x-rays that are easy to inadvertently produce). It seems to me that one good way to identify pseudoscience is to ignore the talking beliefs, and look at walking beliefs (I mean, action inducing beliefs). The talking beliefs are, well, cold fusion works, but the walking beliefs are, no it does not, and therefore I don’t need a dosimeter (unless it is part of the talk).
Well, the neutrons would get moderated by the water in the body rather well… i’m thinking the elements being essentially dissolved in moderator should make it worse overall.
I wonder how much activity would remain in the corpse after a week. To qualify as “short lived waste”, the body would need to have less than 400 KBq/Kg of >30 years half life isotopes: http://www.iaea.org/ns/tutorials/regcontrol/intro/glossaryw_z.htm#W29 . I don’t know what are the regulation for corpses though.
edit: speaking of which, other thing that’s very fishy about “cold fusion”, especially expanded to include transmutation of nickel, is that it never produces radioactive isotopes. On one hand you have those ridiculously high power outputs, on other hand not even a very small fraction of energy comes in form of gamma rays or high energy particles.
If I believed in cold fusion, I’d be experimenting in middle of nowhere, in a basement of a shed, remote viewing only, wearing a dosimeter, with a radiation alarm and so on edit: In fact one of my friends likes to mess with high voltage, and he got a dosimeter and everything for x-rays that are easy to inadvertently produce). It seems to me that one good way to identify pseudoscience is to ignore the talking beliefs, and look at walking beliefs (I mean, action inducing beliefs). The talking beliefs are, well, cold fusion works, but the walking beliefs are, no it does not, and therefore I don’t need a dosimeter (unless it is part of the talk).