Ever swim in a live Nuclear Reactor Pool??

[MotionMan]

Thank you, I hate when people talk about apples and oranges like that.

(Like that extra dollar at the hotel math question, it's apples and oranges and that's what makes it work.)

I am more than mildly surprised that I got it right

MotionMan

 

[BladeVenom]

That water looks very attractive to go take a swim in. Something about the crisp bright blue color.

It's also nice and deep, safe for diving.

 

[Bignate603]

It's also nice and deep, safe for diving.

But there's no life guard on duty.

 

[MotionMan]

But there's no life guard on duty.

If I am there, there is.

MotionMan

 

[IronWing]

Back in the good old days the UW-Madison Engineering School hosts a biannual public tour. One could walk across the catwalk over the reactor pool and peer into the depths and see the blue glow. But the staff got tired of fishing pennies and combs and candy wrappers out of the pool so they closed the catwalk to the public.

 

[Howard]

oops i meant less! i dindt notice i had messed up

No you didn't, dumbass. Otherwise the quote would've been:

did you see the part where it said his radiation dosage was only %20 less than a chest xray?

Uh NO

 

[masterxfob]

oops i meant less! i dindt notice i had messed up

just go write another pome :thumbsup:

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Where is that reactor located? They're just asking for trouble.

On the way to San Diego. I pass by it all the time when I head out to the outlets down there.

 

[J-Money]

Should have stayed in for a while longer.

Then he could become a super hero.

 

[dighn]

Should have stayed in for a while longer.

Then he could become a super hero with cancer.

ftfy

 

[CZroe]

A little surprised the water was cool enough to not do bad things.
But I suppose it's circulated often enough to keep it cool.

It's probably from the reactor that has been shut down for a while for some kind of maintenance. The other one has been shut down since the accident where a pipe blew a few days ago. The third one has been shut down for years.

 

[RavenSEAL]

Analog is a pretty smart guy. He posted that the guy received a 5 millirem dose, compared to 4 millirems in an x-ray. I think the math is pretty trivial to him. Which, by the way, is 25% more.

BAM

 

[rockyct]

The link they link to is a bit better:
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/o...cle_519d459c-19f4-55ed-87c6-8131872e6760.html

I don't think you have a correct picture. That picture seems to be of the rod storage pool and not of the pool of water that is used to cool the actual core.

 

[halik]

Holy shit.

 

[Analog]

Should have stayed in for a while longer.

Then he could become a super hero.

 

[uclaLabrat]

Where is that reactor located? They're just asking for trouble.

What's troubling about it? It's directly next to camp pendleton.

 

[GTaudiophile]

What's troubling about it? It's directly next to camp pendleton.

Let's just hope their diesel generators can't be knocked out by waves. Or did they just not turn on the TV at all a year ago?

 

[uclaLabrat]

Let's just hope their diesel generators can't be knocked out by waves. Or did they just not turn on the TV at all a year ago?

For perspective, the cliff in the foreground is about 100, 150 ft high. The bulk of the complex is atop said cliff. It should do alright. I don't think there's been a tsunami in the area for many hundreds of years, if not thousands.

 

[RapidSnail]

i had a chuckle at the "20%" fail

 

[Sonikku]

The goggles! They do NOTH EENG!

 

[FoBoT]

Eight posts about how different 5 and 4 are?

Yep, it's atot.

i once heard, on ATOT , that 1 = .99999999 , do you know anything aboot that?

 

[FoBoT]

The link they link to is a bit better:
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/o...cle_519d459c-19f4-55ed-87c6-8131872e6760.html

I don't think you have a correct picture. That picture seems to be of the rod storage pool and not of the pool of water that is used to cool the actual core.

pools like the picture are for spent fuel, working reactors are pressurized, so the reactor is not in a pool, it is inside a containment vessel, like a giant drum or tank. it is all enclosed and pressurized, to keep the water contained. the only time the top of the reactor vessel would be removed would be during major maintenance like refueling

 

[yh125d]

For perspective, the cliff in the foreground is about 100, 150 ft high. The bulk of the complex is atop said cliff. It should do alright. I don't think there's been a tsunami in the area for many hundreds of years, if not thousands.

No, the bulk of it is well below the cliff

I can't believe any single engineer worth his salt much less a large team of them designing a nuclear station would be stupid enough to place it that close to the ocean. It's not like it wouldn't be incredibly simple to just have a pump station at the beach and then a plant a couple miles in, and would be orders of magnitude safer. And what, they couldn't spare a few hundred thousand to build a large pond with sufficient water capacity to keep the plant running for at least a few weeks?

And back to the original story, have they never heard of, I don't know, HANDRAILS? Every other industry uses them, and in much less dangerous areas than surrounding a nuclear pool. If not handrails, as least harnesses within a certain proximity to the tank. These are not complicated concepts...

There are a lot more stupidly cut corners than people realize

 

[Paratus]

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. -- Authorities say a worker fell into a reactor pool at the San Onofre nuclear power plant in San Diego County last week but he didn't receive a significant radiation dose.
Southern California Edison spokesman Gil Alexander says the man was leaning over to retrieve a flashlight when he lost his balance and fell into the Unit 2 reactor pool on Jan. 27.
The pool's more than 20 feet deep and holds water that circulates through the reactor core.
Alexander tells the North County Times ( http://bit.ly/w9FzZx) that the worker, who's employed by a private contractor, was wearing a life preserver. He received 5 millirems of radiation.
That's not considered a major dose and he went back to work the same day.
By comparison, a chest X-ray provides about a 4-millirem dose.



http://www.sacbee.com/2012/02/03/4236855/san-onofre-nuke-plant-work-falls.html

I'm pretty sure this guy has Swam in the pool with the pale blue light...

 

[Ichinisan]

[ramble]

Next to the ocean is an OPTIMAL place in case something goes wrong...just dump the whole thing in the water and dig a deep trench there. Make sure you design it so your diesel backup pumps don't gulp water (tall breather tubes or something) and engineer everything to be water-tight.

You act like they can just pump water several hundred feet for cooling. Earthquakes cause tsunami, yes, but they also cause fissures and would easily destroy a long pipe system.