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Serious question, as daft as it might sound - do they have to chlorinate the water to stop stuff growing in it? I'd expect it'd be about "swimming pool" warm so
by ErroneousBosh 1y ago
Serious question, as daft as it might sound - do they have to chlorinate the water to stop stuff growing in it? I'd expect it'd be about "swimming pool" warm so just great for all sorts of manky algae growing.
- rcruzeiro 1y agoThe water is borated and heavily purified. You don’t want stuff growing inside, but at the same time you don’t want to have chlorinated water slowly corroding the metal components.
- ErroneousBosh 1y agoI also read in the XKCD thing that it might be up to about 50° so it's probably a bit uncomfortable for most algae type things. I bet there's some good chance of getting wacky extremophiles though!
- luckman212 1y agoWould you mind sharing a link to "the xkcd thing" if you have it? edit: sorry for being lazy, I scrolled a bit more and found it.
- johnisgood 1y agohttps://what-if.xkcd.com/29/ https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/
- ethbr1 1y agoRelevant: "For the kinds of radiation coming off spent nuclear fuel, every 7 centimeters of water cuts the amount of radiation in half."
- wiz21c 1y agoOn the picture, the fuel rods are indeed protected by a huge quantity of water above them. But what happens below them ? They seem to be in direct contact with the ground...
- Zacharias030 1y ago50C is terribly hot for a swim. Hot spring baths usually top out around 42-43C
- lazide 1y agoCheck out this study. Pretty wild! [https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7760952/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7760952/]
- dundercoder 1y agoChlorinating the water would have adverse effects on material strength and longevity. Even irradiated and heated to 50c, I’ll bet there’s some extremophile bacteria in there somewhere.