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A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool

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Re: A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool

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Post by dudeinjapan »

godelski wrote: post #178
mananaysiempre wrote: post #174

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> [Y]ou are getting over 100bn CPM right now. The reason it doesn't matter is that this is neutrinos and they're not interacting with you. I mean, if you actually had a neutrino detector that produced 10e10 CPM over your cross-section, then it would matter for you, because particle physicists would kidnap you to learn the secret :)

Honestly, the military would probably come after you first. Or maybe an oil company? Frankly because if you could detect neutrinos at that resolution you would be able to produce a really good mapping of... just about anything. From the inside of the Earth to the inside of a secret military facility on the opposite side of the planet. Not to mention you've also invented a communication device that is essentially unja…

This is exactly why no one can know my alter-ego is… Neutrino Man.

Re: A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool

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Post by nilamo »

haskellshill wrote: post #324
wiz21c wrote: post #229

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dunno if the life vest bit comment of yours was sarcastic, but it is a funny remark for sure :-) it sounds like "guy felt down in a volcano, but fortunately, he had a life vest"

Wow, people are really clueless about how nuclear power plants really work. It's really not that dangerous to fall into the water.

The zeitgeist has been anti-nuclear for so many decades, fear pops up around any topic that's at all adjacent to a reactor.

Re: A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool

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Post by nick49488171 »

nosianu wrote: post #250
iamacyborg wrote: post #204

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People should probably try improve their CV health via exercise, rather than pills, wherever possible.

Better than exercise is a better normal lifestyle. Trying to compensate in an hour what went wrong most of the day or week, and with your diet, is far from optimal. One of many, looking at just one detail (sitting): https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/sitting-may-i... From a personal experience, so it's just a guess, a contributor may be fluid movement in the body. Fluid in blood vessels are pumped directl…

How about walking desk?

Re: A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool

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Post by ta1243 »

haskellshill wrote: post #324
wiz21c wrote: post #229

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dunno if the life vest bit comment of yours was sarcastic, but it is a funny remark for sure :-) it sounds like "guy felt down in a volcano, but fortunately, he had a life vest"

Wow, people are really clueless about how nuclear power plants really work. It's really not that dangerous to fall into the water.

Probably is if you don't have a life vest.

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Post by ang_cire »

pembrook wrote: post #92
ang_cire wrote: post #59

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Literally no amount of incident reporting is excessive when it comes to nuclear power. Not just because of the safety of the plant itself, but because so much is reliant on it. It's important to identify even small defects or incidents so that patterns can be noticed before they turn into larger issues. You see the same breaker tripping at 3x the rate of other ones, and even though maybe nothing was damaged you now k…

Aaaand it’s this alarmist attitude which is why we don’t have abundant cheap nuclear energy. Sea-drilling rigs (oil) have far more potential for environmental damage than modern nuclear plants Yet they have no federal public register for when a worker falls overboard (an incident far more likely to result in death).

> Not just because of the safety of the plant itself, but because so much is reliant on it.

When an oil rig has an incident, cities and hospitals and food storage and logistics aren't disrupted.

Re: A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool

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Post by ta1243 »

mjd wrote: post #318
Razengan wrote: post #306

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Reminds me of the "your keyboard is dirtier than your asshole" and similar 'myths' that no one would bother to verify. I mean I would rather lick a keyboard than a butthole (with exceptions of course)

I wouldn't lick my own keyboard, but licking my own asshole sounds interesting

You'd have to be shockingly flexible

Re: A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool

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Post by fwipsy »

haskellshill wrote: post #324
wiz21c wrote: post #229

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dunno if the life vest bit comment of yours was sarcastic, but it is a funny remark for sure :-) it sounds like "guy felt down in a volcano, but fortunately, he had a life vest"

Wow, people are really clueless about how nuclear power plants really work. It's really not that dangerous to fall into the water.

Hey, no need to be condescending. Some people just haven't read [the xkcd.](https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/)

Re: A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool

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Post by layer8 »

afiori wrote: post #246
wiz21c wrote: post #229

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dunno if the life vest bit comment of yours was sarcastic, but it is a funny remark for sure :-) it sounds like "guy felt down in a volcano, but fortunately, he had a life vest"

My understanding is that reactor and waste pools are some of the least radioactive environments as they are constantly monitored for leakage.

TFA says: “The individual was decontaminated by radiation protection personnel but had 300 counts per minute detected in their hair. At 1632 EDT they were sent off site to seek medical attention.”

Apparently they do have concerns.

Re: A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool

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Post by 0_____0 »

j16sdiz wrote: post #223
Traubenfuchs wrote: post #199

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think again https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221175391...

Copying the abstract here, just in case anybody don't have access: Emily Austin, Hilary S. Myron, Richard K. Summerbell, Constance A. Mackenzie, Acute renal injury cause by confirmed Psilocybe cubensis mushroom ingestion, Medical Mycology Case Reports, Volume 23, 2019, Pages 55-57, ISSN 2211-7539, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2018.12.007 . ( https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221175391... ) Abstract…

Kind of a cool read. They're not really sure why the P. cubensis was nephrotoxic. The sample they put through mass spec didn't contain the compound (Orellanine) that the clinical presentation lined up with, and none of the other youths who ate from that crop of mushrooms had subsequent problems.

I wonder if there was an accidental polyculture issue, either with a different mushroom or a freak mutation that caused that particular shroom to synthesize toxic compounds. When growing directly from spores, you get mixed genetics, so your various mushrooms will grow slightly differently (if you want consistent genetics you grow clones from an isolate via agar plate or tissue sample from fruiting body).

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