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by dan_hawkins 1203 days ago
Spent Fuel Pool

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

2 comments

The last lines are the best...

  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.”
I know someone who worked at a medical isotope reactor and there were no guns there, at least not in the reactor area. Security tends to be much much further outside ;)

After all, remember some things in a reactor don't react well to bulletsch.

Nice, thank you!