I need to yap about Iron Lung and Simon getting fatal radiation dose.
Babbling under the cut.
Okay with the caveat that I haven't seen the movie, let's talk about this:
Someone on set did research. These numbers are BANANA PANTS.
So that's 740R a shot and they call out 600R as acute radiation poisoning. That's pretty accurate. 500-600R is chemotherapy dose and generally chemotherapy radiation is aimed in a very precise manner. This is a whole body acute blast.
Given the total lack of GAF in submarine design i think this is a very intense industrial radiography camera. They exist right now in the world but 740R at a foot is, well. It's hard to give a dose for current radiography sources because they're measured in Curies and that doesn't directly convert to dose.
ANYWAY.
The thing about radiation is it isn't directional. Not a physical source anyway. Radiation generally has spherical output. It's going in all directions and this is something you have to account for. Highly calibrated medical sources are different of course. This isn't that.
Simon is getting absolutely blasted every camera shot. He has radiation dermatitis, aka erythema. And it's fast onset, too. That's really, really bad.
So a thing about radiation poisoning is a thing called latency time. There's an initial reaction, a period of fake wellness then the real symptoms hit hard and fast. The higher the dose the less that latency is. The fact that he has such short latency on the erythema means his exposure was intense.
He was dead in two camera shots. Realistically. His body just hadn't realized it yet. Latency. And radiation is accumulative, so every single shot compounded. Fast.
He was never coming back. And he might have killed everyone he flashed with the camera too.
