centerofbrown
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Game of Thrones is done! Anyone watching this?
It's really good. I agree with @rantingredneck that the absolute obedience to the State and Party stand out perfectly. The sheer horror of a firemen picking up a graphite shell and then falling over in 2 minutes is gripping.
The glow showing through the fire, when the Pripyat citizens are looking from miles away, really hits home when the dust starts to fall with the children playing.
A few years ago, I got to stand on the catwalk over a running reactor with the only thing between you and the fissioning material was the blue glowing water. It really is a pretty shade of blue.So i love the show. Being in the line of work i am in, its interesting. When i watched ep1 i was 50ft from a running reactor in the breakroom located in the waste process building.
...it was.it could be.
Yes they were.Just finished episode 3. Them Tula miners are bad*sses.
Seriously though, HBO did a good job showing how horrifying it could be.
Thought of you and the other radiation workers when I watched this the other day.So i love the show. Being in the line of work i am in, its interesting. When i watched ep1 i was 50ft from a running reactor in the breakroom located in the waste process building.
Same location for ep2 too.
Lol
Is the show full of gore or graphic? I’m thinking any scenes of firemen melting from gamma ray exposure or touching smoldering core pieces that flew out of the reactor.
I’d like to watch with the wife, but she’s not gonna go for that. I’ll be on my own. Hoping for more storyline.
Is the show full of gore or graphic? I’m thinking any scenes of firemen melting from gamma ray exposure or touching smoldering core pieces that flew out of the reactor.
I’d like to watch with the wife, but she’s not gonna go for that. I’ll be on my own. Hoping for more storyline.
Thought of you and the other radiation workers when I watched this the other day.
Show is good, I like it. Radiation is some scary stuff.
In every day terms, though, steam is far scarier stuff when you're walking around in the plant. My personal order of energy that can hurt you working in nuclear power is steam, electricity, and radiation is a distant third.
There are some design features of the Soviet-era RBMK-4000 reactor that made the accident that much worse - namely the positive temperature coefficient of reactivity and the positive void coefficient. Also, using graphite as a moderator instead of water exacerbated the problem - namely when the reactor went prompt critical, flashed all the water to steam and blew the head of the reactor, fission didn't stop. In an American PWR (and I am assuming BWR as well), once the coolant water is gone, no moderation of neutrons continues, and the fission process stops....then you're just dealing with decay heat (which is still a lot immediately post-trip, but it's manageable).
Listen to the chernobyl podcast, eye opening.
The fact they almost had a thermal nuclear bomb that would of wipe out most of Europe is just crazy.
Call me stupid, crazy, nuts, etc. I would love to go there.
650,000 people used to clean up the mess. nearly 4,000 used to clear the roof top so the tomb over the reactor could start to be built. The 90 seconds they could be on the roof is the amount of radiation they could be exposed to in their life time. Radiation exposure is cumulative, it'doesn't go away.
You can go there, via tourist company in Ukraine.I knew about 99.5% of the details but I missed, in my prior research, the water build up/steam dump and the potential nuclear detonation that put Europe in jeopardy. And there were 16 other reactors like it in the USSR at the time
I would visit there also
It's very close to the actual event. So much so Russia media is disputing some of it.Have not watched but have heard how phony some of it is. If people won’t buy global warming we’ll just scare them away from clean nuclear.
It's very close to the actual event. So much so Russia media is disputing some of it.
Listen to the pod cats of Chernybol.