| Posted by SilentSearch |
6/28/2006 4:31 AM | remove |
What are those pipes on the right behind the chain link fence?
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| Posted by CrazyMinerBob |
6/29/2006 3:56 AM | remove |
Water pipe - I believe it was used for cooling. It's bagged & tagged, because it's likely crapped up with residual radiation.
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| Posted by Rust |
1/7/2007 8:36 PM | remove |
I'm slightly confused. I thought alpha radiation was completely harmless to humans. So doesn't that make all this radiation warnings and whatnot a bit over the top?
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| Posted by SilentSearch |
1/7/2007 11:29 PM | remove |
I wouldn't say harmless. You sure don't want to ingest any.
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| Posted by CrazyMinerBob |
2/1/2007 2:45 AM | remove |
Alphas can be stopped by a piece of paper, a layer of skin, etc. But, as Silent said, you don't want to ingest any (as Alexander Litvinenko would attest to, were he still here).
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| Posted by Blackbird |
5/20/2007 1:01 AM | remove |
So I guess you can't get an atom tan then?
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| Posted by CrazyMinerBob |
5/20/2007 11:18 PM | remove |
At least not here, since its shut down. The Advanced Light Source (also at Berkeley) is a synchrotron that's a billion times brighter than the sun, so that might be a possibility...
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| Posted by SilentSearch |
5/23/2007 3:35 AM | remove |
I don't think my SPF 50 will help in that case.:)
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| Posted by Blackbird |
5/29/2007 8:57 PM | remove |
Yeah, too bad. I heard about two guys that were fishing in the coolent pond at Chernobyl and could see the reacter's core when it melted down; they were so bombarded by radiation that when the army found them they were covered in vomit and their skin was black. Go nuclear!
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| Posted by macserv |
7/22/2008 10:18 PM | remove |
I hope that "Go nuclear!" was intended to be humorous... nuclear energy in this country is safer and cleaner than fossil fuels, and is desperately needed for the next few decades.
Chernobyl is a horrific incident, but it pretty much exemplifies everything you should *not* do when planning, building, or operating a nuclear power facility. Here are some rules they should have observed, any one of them could have averted disaster:
Don't design reactors to run on cheap uranium, with the intent to later harvest plutonium from them for weapons.
Don't skip building a concrete containment vessel, and be sure to finish the safety systems before powering up the reactor.
Don't run experiments on reactors in civilian power plants, and make sure any military experiments are carried out by trained, prepared operators.
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| Posted by Emperor Wang |
2/25/2013 2:15 PM | remove |
Gah. This place is too much.
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