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Originally Posted by Hamrick
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1. When it comes to continuing doses from ingestion, the rules state that the rad dose can range from 1 rad/day, to several per minute. How long do these actually last though?
2. If you experience multiple doses of rads separately, would you experience the same exact effects over again? For example, if you experienced three different 40 rad doses, would you suffer from Hematopoietic syndrome three different times?
3. Lastly, how do you actually determine a 'dose'. For instance, if you accumulate 1 rad a day for a week, would that be 7 one rad doses, or one 7 rad dose at the end of the week.
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!. It depends on exactly what you've ingested. You find out the half-life of what it is and reduce your daily dose graduallya s the half-life expires. You could easily have ingested something that'll outlive you without treatment.
2. This is where the cumulative nature of radiation exposure comes in. When you get the first dose you start with a count of 40 rads and determine results for that. 30 days later it goes down to a permanent count of 4 rads. If you then take another 40 rads your count is at 44 and you determine results for that and go down to 8 rads 30 days later. After that another 40 rads puts you at 48. If you got 40 rads on Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3 rather than Day1, Day 31 and Day 61 you check at 40 rads, 80 rads and 120 rads before going down to 12 rads on Day 33..
3.You check for radiation sickness when you accumulate 1 rad but no more than once per day. Your example situation would be 7 checks at once per day. If you were only getting 0.1 rads per day it be 1 check on day 10. .