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I thought the main risk was from being shot by the guards before you made it to the pool?
by sunrunner 11mo ago
I thought the main risk was from being shot by the guards before you made it to the pool?
- Waterluvian 11mo agoThe main risk is getting into a car accident as you outrun the cops down the freeway on your way to the reactor.
- LgWoodenBadger 11mo agoI don’t know why you’re being downvoted. See https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/ https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/ “But just to be sure, I got in touch with a friend of mine who works at a research reactor, and asked him what he thought would happen to you if you tried to swim in their radiation containment pool. “In our reactor?” He thought about it for a moment. “You’d die pretty quickly, before reaching the water, from gunshot wounds.”
- ninju 11mo agoSo death by acute lead poisoning :-)
- goodpoint 11mo ago...only in the US.
- IAmBroom 11mo agoNot from what I heard from a boss who visited a European nuclear plant. The site contains the most dangerous poison on Earth, that is also a key component in the most feared weapon on Earth. Do you suppose in the UK they just put up signs saying "Sir or madam, kindly do not steal our plutonium"?