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One problem i see with trying to cut or drill into it is that that'll shoot radioactive dust into the air which can be a much worse problem than just "nobody ca
by simcop2387 10y ago
One problem i see with trying to cut or drill into it is that that'll shoot radioactive dust into the air which can be a much worse problem than just "nobody can ever go in there". You can use cutting fluid of some kind but then you've got radioactive fluid you have to clean up. maybe that's easier to deal with? I don't know.
- ChuckMcM 10y agoBoth good questions. In the case of Chernobyl there is the whole building around it (the sarcophagus) which does dust containment. That said, it might a workable idea to grind it into dust and vacuum out the dust into containment vessels. (easier to transport from the dismantling point to containment.) Depending on how warm it is I wonder if you could spray it with epoxy to coat/encapsulate dust.