Useless Facts, The Best Kind of Facts
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Aww, I was gonna shoot a bunch of these down, looks like I've been far beaten to the punch.
Lets see here...fun atomic energy facts.
The 'sarcophagus' covering reactor 4 at the Chernobyl power station in Ukraine is in imminent danger of collapse. This would cause a plume of irradiated dust to wash over the countryside (again). Even more fun - the 27 or so tons of melted nuclear fuel is still present in the reactor - some of the melted masses still give off so much radiation that you could die from less than 30 seconds of exposure. Incidentally the reactor area is proposed as a tourist destination in a year or so. >.>
In the boy scouts, there used to be a badge for the understanding and practical application of atomic energy.
The reactor meltdown at Three Mile Island in PA was just as dangerous as the Chernobyl accident, and happened 2 years earlier. It's less heard of because while the reactor lost around half its fuel supply, there was little loss of containment.
At a research facility owned by Rocketdyne in 1959, Simi Valley, CA, an early molten salt reactor prototype experienced a meltdown due to technician stupidity, and because it was a prototype, there was no containment facility or protocols. The results were contamination of the entire Simi Valley area, on the order of around 240 times greater than the TMI accident. Simi Valley is currently experiencing something of a suburb population explosion, despite this. I wonder if anyone in that area owns dosimeters?
Funniest part about all this info? I'm 100% for atomic energy. All the above accidents were user stupidity almost entirely, Chernobyl being a lead engineer ignoring direct orders on how to run a test, at TMI the problem was greatly escalated by a tech shutting off the cooling water feed to the reactor based on a hunch, and at the SRE in Simi Valley, the techs barely managed to shut the reactor down from an out of control reaction...and then STARTED IT BACK UP a few hours later. Get some properly trained and level headed people in there, and we could have some cheap energy.
Last fun atomic fact: Thorium is far, FAR more abundant than uranium as a nuclear fuel, most reactor designs using thorium are also far safer. This was known in the '50s, but uranium was selected for study because thorium is not well suited to be made into weapons grade material.
Lets see here...fun atomic energy facts.
The 'sarcophagus' covering reactor 4 at the Chernobyl power station in Ukraine is in imminent danger of collapse. This would cause a plume of irradiated dust to wash over the countryside (again). Even more fun - the 27 or so tons of melted nuclear fuel is still present in the reactor - some of the melted masses still give off so much radiation that you could die from less than 30 seconds of exposure. Incidentally the reactor area is proposed as a tourist destination in a year or so. >.>
In the boy scouts, there used to be a badge for the understanding and practical application of atomic energy.
The reactor meltdown at Three Mile Island in PA was just as dangerous as the Chernobyl accident, and happened 2 years earlier. It's less heard of because while the reactor lost around half its fuel supply, there was little loss of containment.
At a research facility owned by Rocketdyne in 1959, Simi Valley, CA, an early molten salt reactor prototype experienced a meltdown due to technician stupidity, and because it was a prototype, there was no containment facility or protocols. The results were contamination of the entire Simi Valley area, on the order of around 240 times greater than the TMI accident. Simi Valley is currently experiencing something of a suburb population explosion, despite this. I wonder if anyone in that area owns dosimeters?
Funniest part about all this info? I'm 100% for atomic energy. All the above accidents were user stupidity almost entirely, Chernobyl being a lead engineer ignoring direct orders on how to run a test, at TMI the problem was greatly escalated by a tech shutting off the cooling water feed to the reactor based on a hunch, and at the SRE in Simi Valley, the techs barely managed to shut the reactor down from an out of control reaction...and then STARTED IT BACK UP a few hours later. Get some properly trained and level headed people in there, and we could have some cheap energy.
Last fun atomic fact: Thorium is far, FAR more abundant than uranium as a nuclear fuel, most reactor designs using thorium are also far safer. This was known in the '50s, but uranium was selected for study because thorium is not well suited to be made into weapons grade material.
A neutron star is a star on the knifes edge of becoming a black hole. They usually do after a while i.e. about 1000 years.Talal Provides said:
Just to take it one further theres even a physical limit to how much crap you can shove into a single point, this goes for black holes too. As a black hole takes in more mass it will eventually grow in size and they will eventually comsume other black holes too.
Heck everything in a galaxy orbits one immense black hole that makes the ones we can see look like ants compared to a blue whale.
The fear of Peanut Butter sticking to the roof of your mouth is Archbutyrophobia (Not sure of spelling, bur sounded out like "Arch-rt-but-why-oh-phobia")
try this fact on for size. there are an infinite amount of points in one inch, so lets just post that as one infinity. I know its wrong, as infinity is a concept, but stay with me. so, therefore, there are also an infinite amount of points in 2 inches, but it is 2 infinities, because one inch was one. isnt that confusing?