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Paul Free (14 Ⓐ, europe) @paulfree14

Just dump this here. Nobody will noticed we did after 1 billion years.

A container full of material stayed 'unckecked' for 26 years
Nuclear material container unchecked for 26 years at Oarai Research and Development Center ()

Workers now openend it and got contaminated.

Nuclear is deadly , remember this when choosing your contracter.
(and it's used for building atomic weapons)

www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/new

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Risabee ☸ @risabee@social.coop

@paulfree14 See also our cavalier attitude -- graphite bombs were invented to create Chernobyls in belligerent countries. social.coop/media/0y7l1n_sxFRq

Hallå Kitteh @clacke@social.heldscal.la
@risabee @paulfree14 "Knock out" isn't equivalent to "create Chernobyls".
Risabee ☸ @risabee@social.coop

@clacke @paulfree14 What happens when you knock out a nuke is Fukushima.

Hallå Kitteh @clacke@social.heldscal.la
@risabee @paulfree14 Fukushima as terrible as it was, was still no Chernobyl, but maybe we can call it that.

Still, what happened there was more than a short circuit of the external power lines.
Risabee ☸ @risabee@social.coop

@clacke The external power is required for the cooling, hence the huge diesel generators. Granted I spoke for emphasis but I keep seeing NATO people high-fiving each other and saying "there it goes!"

Risabee ☸ @risabee@social.coop

@clacke Yipes www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/new

Hallå Kitteh @clacke@social.heldscal.la
@risabee Woah.
Risabee ☸ @risabee@social.coop

@clacke Thanks for reining me in, I was raised in Southern Appalachia farm country and there we use language in ways that get us in trouble, like for a large cottonmouth (four feet, say) we would say "that there snake wuz a mile long if it wuz a inch."

Hallå Kitteh @clacke@social.heldscal.la
@risabee Hyperbole has its place in discussion.
Hallå Kitteh @clacke@social.heldscal.la
@risabee And thank you "Luke Cage" for teaching me what a cottonmouth is. :-)
Paul Free (14 Ⓐ, europe) @paulfree14

@risabee I remember being told of the danger of if someone throughs a on it then....
...and now reading is doing it by themselves.
Do you know if it overheats the powerplants? (thought that's the only dangar)

Hallå Kitteh @clacke@social.heldscal.la
@paulfree14 @risabee It depends where their reserve power is for the cooling systems etc.
Risabee ☸ @risabee@social.coop

@paulfree14 Concern is backup power. If you cannot get the absorbing rods in place storage pools overheat, stripping coating from power rods, raising the water past boiling point. Then pool catches on fire.

Similarly, inside the reactor (but involving far fewer rods) can have hydrogen explosion, degrading rods, or "minor" criticalities. Does not result in large nuclear blast but can cause breach of containment vessel up to and including what is sometimes called China syndrome.

Hallå Kitteh @clacke@social.heldscal.la
@risabee @paulfree14 One would hope that power plants are designed to survive a failure of the power grid. What happened in Fukushima was failure of multiple backup systems, so I admit maybe it's too much to hope for.
Risabee ☸ @risabee@social.coop

@paulfree14 Many things can and do happen. Think what a war crime it would be to make them happen on purpose. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of

Hallå Kitteh @clacke@social.heldscal.la
@paulfree14 LFTR when?
Paul Free (14 Ⓐ, europe) @paulfree14

@clacke what means LFTR?

Hallå Kitteh @clacke@social.heldscal.la
@paulfree14 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reactor
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