this post was submitted on 02 Dec 2023
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

you can actually safely swim in these pools. Just don't go diving too close to it. water is that good at shielding radiation.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Swimming to the bottom, touching your elbows to a fresh fuel canister, and immediately swimming back up would probably be enough to kill you.

Yet outside the outer boundary, you could swim around as long as you wanted—the dose from the core would be less than the normal background dose you get walking around. In fact, as long as you were underwater, you would be shielded from most of that normal background dose. You may actually receive a lower dose of radiation treading water in a spent fuel pool than walking around on the street.

xkcd What If? #29

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

So you're saying that you can swim in an energy drink?

[–] LazaroFilm 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Look at you! You’re glowing today!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

New set of gender goals: Radium Girl.

[–] evilsmurf -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The reactor will power the town 24/7/365. All three of the others together aren't powerful or reliable enough for a single city block.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

All 4 can all be used together to make the world a better place

[–] evilsmurf 1 points 11 months ago

Sorry, it seemed to me like the meme was implying that reactors are unsafe.

I probably just don't get the meme.