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by Symmetry 3104 days ago
XKCD had a really great illustration of that.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/

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I love this!

> But just to be sure, I got in touch with a friend of mine who works at a research reactor, and asked him what he thought would happen to you if you tried to swim in their radiation containment pool. “In our reactor?” He thought about it for a moment. “You’d die pretty quickly, before reaching the water, from gunshot wounds.”