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How soon should I expect another appendage to grow
Posted on 2/21/23 at 12:21 pm
Posted on 2/21/23 at 12:21 pm
I built a pipe fence around my yard a couple of months ago with oilfield pipe and went to take the leftover pieces to the scrap yard today. They came out with some sort of radioactive detector and it bounced off the end of the meter. I welded on that material for about 3 months outdoors. How screwed am I?
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Posted on 2/21/23 at 12:22 pm to WhiskeyThrottle
shite happens. We're you wearing any sort if respirator?
Posted on 2/21/23 at 12:22 pm to WhiskeyThrottle
Posted on 2/21/23 at 12:22 pm to WhiskeyThrottle
bout tree fiddy, because somebody has to say it
Posted on 2/21/23 at 12:23 pm to WhiskeyThrottle
Your existing appendages are going to shrink. I would wait to see if you need new shirts/pants. Your wife is going to be pissed.
Posted on 2/21/23 at 12:25 pm to Big Gorilla
I got this.
-Jody
-Jody
Posted on 2/21/23 at 12:26 pm to El Segundo Guy
Sorta hard to fit a respirator under the welding helmet. But, when I came to that cross roads, I ditched the eye protection to wear the respirator. Thank God right. I just can't see very well now.
Posted on 2/21/23 at 12:26 pm to WhiskeyThrottle
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How screwed am I?
Posted on 2/21/23 at 12:28 pm to tigNstick629
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NORMs
More than likely what it is. I don't know anything about NORMs. How does the pipe become radioactive with oil pipe? And is it low grade radioactivity?
Posted on 2/21/23 at 12:29 pm to WhiskeyThrottle
quote:My scrap yard won't take drill stem because of the possible risks. OTOH, if welding that shite killed you, I'd be a dead muthafricka.
radioactive detector and it bounced off the end of the meter
For some reason this brought to mind one of my old neighbors from when I was a kid. Old man was a top-flight welder, but he was rough as hell. He smoked Marlboro 100s, and just because he was wearing a welding helmet didn't mean he was quitting the smokes. He welded a bunch of stuff on our farm, and I remember looking out across the yard and seeing a cloud of smoke coming off his rod and another cloud emanating from inside his helmet.
Posted on 2/21/23 at 12:32 pm to FCP
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My scrap yard won't take drill stem because of the possible risks. OTOH, if welding that shite killed you, I'd be a dead muthafricka.
How do you get rid of the scrap when you're done with it? I've read to bury it, but we're on a well, and I don't particularly want to put it in the ground around my house.
I have enough material left to build a loafing shed. As long as I'm still alive in a couple of months, I'll be welding on it again for the loafing shed.
Posted on 2/21/23 at 12:34 pm to WhiskeyThrottle
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How screwed am I?
More than eating bananas off a granite countertop for 75 years, but less than Chernobyl.
Posted on 2/21/23 at 12:38 pm to WhiskeyThrottle
Just stay upwind. You will be fine.
Posted on 2/21/23 at 12:40 pm to WhiskeyThrottle
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They came out with some sort of radioactive detector and it bounced off the end of the meter.
3.6 roentgen...not great, not terrible.
Posted on 2/21/23 at 12:41 pm to WhiskeyThrottle
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More than likely what it is. I don't know anything about NORMs. How does the pipe become radioactive with oil pipe?
Not sure exactly what kind of pipe you were using, but NORM is relatively common in the oilfield. Common enough that people know to look for it, anyhow.
One source I’m aware of is barium sulfate scale, which comes from produced water and can plug up production tubing. There’s a small amount of radium that occurs naturally in the produced water, not enough to be of any concern under normal circumstances. But when barium sulfate precipitates and deposits on pipe walls, it takes some of the radium with it. Eventually you get enough radium concentrated in the scale buildup that it reaches a detectable level of NORM.
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And is it low grade radioactivity?
I think “low” is relative but as far as I’m aware, the main hazard is inhaling or ingesting the NORM-containing dust. I don’t think it’s something that’s going to give you radiation poisoning just by standing next to it. But if you were cutting/banging on the pipe and inhaled a lot of dust it’s probably not great.
You might have a bigger problem figuring out what to do with your pipe now that it’s hazardous waste.
Posted on 2/21/23 at 12:44 pm to WhiskeyThrottle
Move to East Palestine Ohio.
I heard you can get 40 acres and a dead mule for almost nothing.
Godspeed.
I heard you can get 40 acres and a dead mule for almost nothing.
Godspeed.
Posted on 2/21/23 at 12:53 pm to WhiskeyThrottle
I welded on a bunch of pipe like that last year and now it burns when I pee. Be careful.
Posted on 2/21/23 at 1:01 pm to WhiskeyThrottle
You gonna look like the mutated fish from the Simpsons by Christmas. Prayers sent.
Posted on 2/21/23 at 1:08 pm to WhiskeyThrottle
Old drain pipes from my catfish ponds have set off that radiation detector before. Guy told me it could be the mud and to spray the pipes off with a pressure washer. Cleaner the better
Try that.
Try that.
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