If anyone's interested, here's a short film about an actual secret Arctic research facility:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ujx_pND9wg
...handling fuel rods in T-shirts and gloves, oh dear, oh dear.
Quote from: Tapewolf on August 06, 2016, 04:55:11 PM
If anyone's interested, here's a short film about an actual secret Arctic research facility:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ujx_pND9wg
...handling fuel rods in T-shirts and gloves, oh dear, oh dear.
Oooh, that is cool
Fascinating. I wouldn't want to do it myself, but I can't see too much of a problem with the fuel rods. They're sub-critical, it's not like they're releasing that much radiation, right?
... right? :-/
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on August 08, 2016, 09:13:35 AM
Fascinating. I wouldn't want to do it myself, but I can't see too much of a problem with the fuel rods. They're sub-critical, it's not like they're releasing that much radiation, right?
... right? :-/
You are correct. Uranium have a pretty long half life of 703.8 million years which means they are not that dangerous. It only emits 13.5 MeV / decaying nucleus.
Quote from: Qwex1 on August 08, 2016, 12:41:42 PM
You are correct. Uranium have a pretty long half life of 703.8 million years which means they are not that dangerous. It only emits 13.5 MeV / decaying nucleus.
:tmyk