[QUOTE=Rockeiro123;40727397]Fact 11- It's crawling with bloodsuckers.[/QUOTE]
Nah. More snorks and Monolith fighters.
I want the names of those 3 volunteers, that sort of bravery should be recognized and remembered.
Two of them were engineers who worked at the plant, Alexi Ananeko and Valeri Bezpalov.
[img]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-C-GxMpJpXVc/T2yupaSm60I/AAAAAAAAT6A/-rbnXfeTJNM/s1600/EL%2BHEROE%2BDE%2BCHERNOBYL-2.jpg[/img]
The third was Boris Baranov, couldn't find a picture of him.
hahahah
I was expecting it to be serious, then they said the thermal explosion would be 10 times bigger than Hiroshima.
Yeah that explosion thing I'm sure is wrong.
"Radioactive pools"
What exactly was in these "pools" and what was the temperature?
[QUOTE=Str4fe;40731058]"Radioactive pools"
What exactly was in these "pools" and what was the temperature?[/QUOTE]
Just water under the reactor.
It was really interesting but i think it was kind of annoying with those transitions...
[QUOTE=Canary;40731098]Just water under the reactor.[/QUOTE]
Just how radioactive was this water? How long can one live in it?
[QUOTE=Str4fe;40731155]Just how radioactive was this water? How long can one live in it?[/QUOTE]
Probably not long if it doesnt kill you instantly because it might be boiling or acidic, the radition from it will kill you later.
Pfft 10x bigger than Hiroshima...
[QUOTE=Str4fe;40731155]Just how radioactive was this water? How long can one live in it?[/QUOTE]
The water vas very radioactive, and the three who offered themselves died shortly after.
Their job was to open a release valve so that the nuclear fuel would not melt through and fall into the water and cause a thermic explosion.
This explosion would be pretty large, but I don't even think it'd blow away the rest of the building. He's exagarrating a fuckton in the video.
The problem with that explosion would be that it'd pump out tons of radioactive materials, which obviously would be bad because the winds would drive it across the globe.
[QUOTE=Str4fe;40731155]Just how radioactive was this water? How long can one live in it?[/QUOTE]
Radioactive material probably leaked into the pool and that caused the quick deaths. You can actually swim in spent fuel pools (that contain used radioactive rods, not sure if they were swimming in the pool that cooled the working reactor or something) for as long as you want, as long as you don't actually go down into the bottom of the pool and near the rods themselves. [URL="http://what-if.xkcd.com/29/"]Source[/URL]
Seems a bit sensationalist.
I feel it's necessary to point out, in case some didn't know already, that the exclusion zone is pretty tame today. Almost all of the radioactive dust that was released in the explosion has migrated underground with the rain water, and the only real way for you to get seriously irradiated is to eat handfuls of dirt. Even the power plant itself is pretty safe, and over a thousand people work there without having to use massive protective measures.
get out of here stalker
cheeki breeki
[QUOTE=Str4fe;40731058]"Radioactive pools"
What exactly was in these "pools" and what was the temperature?[/QUOTE]
[t]http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/files/2011/11/McMasterNuclearReactorNR.jpeg[/t]
[QUOTE=PelPix123;40734016]The fungus part is astonishing. If it can quickly normalize the amount of radiation in the area, it makes me wonder if--after humans all die off--there will be no way to tell we were ever there eventually.[/QUOTE]
Humans will definitely leave things behind after we all die off - unless we destroy the planet in the process. And even then, debris could range from large chunks of mass to small personal objects - objects that may have belonged to you and me, floating through the void of space for eons, until perhaps another intelligent race discovers them.
Wait, so they can create clouds?
How long until we have a baron wasteland in the real world like the Matrix?
[QUOTE=Quark:;40734423]Humans will definitely leave things behind after we all die off - unless we destroy the planet in the process. And even then, debris could range from large chunks of mass to small personal objects - objects that may have belonged to you and me, floating through the void of space for eons, until perhaps another intelligent race discovers them.[/QUOTE]
Our purpose here is to nuke the world so that radiation eating mushrooms can thrive.
Pangloss would he proud
[QUOTE=megafat;40735178]Wait, so they can create clouds?
How long until we have a baron wasteland in the real world like the Matrix?[/QUOTE]
Clouds are really just water that has condensed on particles. Silver Iodide when ground into a powder and used in this method is efficient at artificially inducing rain.
[QUOTE=megafat;40735178]Wait, so they can create clouds?
How long until we have a baron wasteland in the real world like the Matrix?[/QUOTE]
Actually a relatively common thing in some parts of the world. Especially in China. During the Mao era they used to do the same thing to try and irrigate farm land. They also bomb their frozen rivers every year and other silly things like that.
The results of shooting silver iodide shells into the air to cause clouds and rains are hit and miss. It really does work, just not the way you think. They still do it on occasion.
[url]http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/01/china-uses-missiles-to-make-it-rain/[/url]
[QUOTE=meppers;40733685][t]http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/files/2011/11/McMasterNuclearReactorNR.jpeg[/t][/QUOTE]
I've always found those pools quite eerie; probably just cuz they're so deep. Here's an example
[IMG]http://abris-de-charme.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/piscine-profonde.jpg[/IMG]
I would really like to visit Chernobyl someday. Something about it just fascinates me.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiPgsesupDQ[/media]
This video claims the same thing about the explosion being 10 times bigger than Hiroshima. Which confuses me because NPP's can't produce your typical nuclear explosions. It was a steam explosion which hurled tons of radioactive material into the air. I'm really not sure what they're on about, still interesting imo.
[QUOTE=EagleEye;40736240]This video claims the same thing about the explosion being 10 times bigger than Hiroshima. Which confuses me because NPP's can't produce your typical nuclear explosions. It was a steam explosion which hurled tons of radioactive material into the air. I'm really not sure what they're on about, still interesting imo.[/QUOTE]
Perhaps, in reality, the [I]radiation[/I] produced by the explosion would have been [I]ten times more[/I] than that of Hiroshima - and these videos misinterpreted their sources?
[QUOTE=Chinook249;40735697]I've always found those pools quite eerie; probably just cuz they're so deep. Here's an example
[IMG]http://abris-de-charme.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/piscine-profonde.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
I would be piss-scared of swimming in one, deep or not. The fact that you're that close to something that was in the heart of a [I]nuclear reactor[/I] is a bit frightening.
[QUOTE=Chinook249;40735697]I've always found those pools quite eerie; probably just cuz they're so deep. Here's an example
[IMG]http://abris-de-charme.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/piscine-profonde.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Reminds me of the water scenes in HL1 with the ichthyosaurs
[QUOTE=K1ngo64;40737601]Reminds me of the water scenes in HL1 with the ichthyosaurs[/QUOTE]
Another reason for me to not go swim there.
[QUOTE=Chinook249;40735697]I've always found those pools quite eerie; probably just cuz they're so deep. Here's an example
[IMG]http://abris-de-charme.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/piscine-profonde.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
That's actually Nemo 33, the world's deepest indoor swimming pool, 34.5m
[img]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zqFoq3qej2c/TFXUg8mX2_I/AAAAAAABdOA/x8eLN0CdHug/s1600/BEL-NEM-0708-050.jpg[/img]
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