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Horrifying. Hope this is a joke.
by sithadmin 11y ago
Horrifying. Hope this is a joke.
- fnordfnordfnord 11y agoIf this sort of thing isn't going on or hasn't gone on, I'd be surprised.
- sithadmin 11y agoIt's completely believable. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn That doesn't make it any less terrifying. This kind of thing is how you end up with a superfund site on your hands.
- fnordfnordfnord 11y agoMaybe, I'm more worried about local industry's contribution than some science nerd's overly-ambitious projects.
- blacksmith_tb 11y agoIt would be preferable if the suddenly-wealthy tinkerer was inspired to build a solar farm instead, yes. Or even a thorium reactor. I would think that refining your own uranium would be fairly hazardous to your own health, even if it wasn't enough to leave much of dangerous cleanup site.
- dghughes 11y agoI remember reading that and it's much more believable. I really wanted to try it butnof course didn't but the smoke detector americium and aluminum pie plates always makes me laugh. And "they were sawing up the shed with electric saws and a uffing the pieces in barrels". We need to get that German lady BioNerd here to verify these stories.
- NegativeK 11y agoThis feels more like "I read the Wikipedia article about CANDU and wrote a story from it."
- gozur88 11y agoThat's what I was thinking. The author glosses over years and years worth of tricky engineering problems, particularly regarding heavy water production.