Litvinyenko

[hellywelly4]

I’ve just watched this series and the follow-up programme and found it very interesting. I didn’t know much about what ha but felt it was handled extremely well and sensitively.

[Peter Pedant]

By and large very accurate
not great suppressed spooky stuff-
he went in and said "I have been poisoned" and he had

the only thing I cd tell was ( as a Porton Down ex lab rat, wiv CDEE jus' down the road) they knew it was polonium with in 24 h.

ALL hospital chemical labs ( except Bridport West Dorset, no really) have nur-nur machines ( they go 'nur-nur grubbada grubbada boop boop!') so that the really complicated expensive analysers arent contaminated

his first blood sample on admission, sparked the machine to go nur-nur -and like Windscale Chernobyl, everyone went - "er wha?" - that machine hasnt gone nur-nur for FIFTEEN years etc, is it working?

it was
spooks called

[Peter Pedant]

Polonium emits alpha particles
highly charged and ionising
BUT
wont make it thro paper, as in a paper bag - too highly charged see?

see also
https://www.fizzics.org/rutherfords-gold-leaf-experiment/

the gold leaf was said to be two atoms thick ! a paper bag is a lorra lorra thicka than that ! ( and the rare observation that some came back toward the source, disproved the plum pudding model).

sozza v technical..... why dont I limit my answers to - - foo! yeah and no one wd swear or cuss me

[maggiebee]

I've got one more episode to watch. Enjoying is not quite the word I would use, but I'm riveted. I remember when this happened but must admit I really didn't pay too much attention at the time. His wife and son still live in London.