What would happen if you swam in a nuclear containment pool? Every centimeter of water between you and the spent fuel cuts the radiation in half, roughly.
Swimming to the bottom and touching something radioactive would kill you in a couple days or even hours, but if you’re only a few feet under, then there may actually be less ambient radiation than outside the water.
Good luck. You'll need it.
ReplyDeleteI work about a 20 minute from Oak Ridge. Now I'm worried.
ReplyDeletePerfectly safe to swim in the pool. Driving past a nuclear
ReplyDeleteplant that emits miniscule amounts of Alpha radiation that
is stopped by your windshield is literally harmless. In
fact, driving an extra 5 miles to avoid one places you in
hundreds of times more danger of dying in an auto accident.
The media are by and large scientifically illiterate so when
they report the Chernoble accident cause x milirems detected
on the East Coast, the question should be how much are we
really talking about?
I have heard the horror stories about milk from cows near a
nuclear powerplant containing radioactive elements makes
my eyes roll. The milk would contain the same levels if the
dairy farm was 10,000 miles away from the closest source of
exposure.
This is because the ground is awash Uranium, Thorium and
Potassium. This is what makes the vast majority of human and
animal exposure, AKA background radiation. This is also the
source of Radon gas.
I do agree with you. It was my poor attempt at sarcasm.
DeleteFlux that, ain't goin near that.
ReplyDeleteever been on a airliner that has the glow in the dark signs to show the emergency exits? encapsulated Tritium gas in the sign gives off photons as the radioactive tritium gas degrades over time. think that thru. i have access to some old aircraft instrument which have radium dial markings. they sit in a lead lined box await disposal. kind of expensive to dispose of. the earths core is liquid metal heated by guess what. gonna go near that any time soon?
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