Freshly stolen but very accurate to my life.
Somewhere in the world, this has happened before.
High Flux Isotope Reactor refueling at Oak Ridge National Lab
These are pictures. If you would see this with your own eyes you will be killed by the radiation. You would see the colors of hell.
Not quite.
Notice all the water? Cerenkov radiation is visible to the human eye in water, which happens to make for great radiation shielding. I see it from the time a vessel head is pulled off for a refueling outage until it’s sealed back on and I’m pretty sure I’m not dead.
Good effort, though.
There’s actually an in-depth explanation of what would happen if you swam in a nuclear containment pool. Every centimeter of water between you and the spent fuel cuts the radiation in half, roughly.
Swimming to the bottom and touching something radioactive would kill you in a couple days or even hours, but if you’re only a few feet under, then there may actually be less ambient radiation than outside the water.
What is it with tumblr users and adding ridiculous comments about things they have no knowledge of
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