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I would hope no one would try to swim in one, but if you empty the pools where the vast majority of America's nuclear waste is stored, most people would say the
by mimixco 7y ago
I would hope no one would try to swim in one, but if you empty the pools where the vast majority of America's nuclear waste is stored, most people would say the resulting cavity strongly resembles a swimming pool.
- sadris 7y agoYou can swim in spent nuclear fuel pools. I know a professional diver who did it for a living.
- sampo 7y agohttps://what-if.xkcd.com/29/ https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/
- mimixco 7y agoLove the revelation that swimming down to touch the spent fuel rods would be fatal. Pro-nuclear folks don't like facts like that because they want to pretend that either there is no waste, the waste won't hurt you, or we've solved the problem of storing it safely. None of these is true.
- joelvalleroy 7y agoNuclear professionals are made acutely aware of the dose they would get on a work task, and what to do if the conditions aren't as expected. This kind of work isn't a "do whatever you feel like" scenario.