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A small, 3MW experimental BWR called SL-1 (Stationary Low-Power Plant No. 1) in Idaho was destroyed on January 3, 1961, when a control rod was removed manually. ... The resulting power surge caused the reactor power to reach 20,000MW in about .01 seconds

Holy fuck!!!

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"3 January 1961: A reactor explosion (attributed by a Nuclear Regulatory Commission source to sabotage) at the National Reactor Testing Station in Idaho Falls, Idaho, killed one navy technician and two army technicians, and released radioactivity "largely confined" (words of John A. McCone, Director of the Atomic Energy Commission) to the reactor building. The three men were killed as they moved fuel rods in a "routine" preparation for the reactor start-up. One technician was blown to the ceiling of the containment dome and impaled on a control rod. His body remained there until it was taken down six days later. The men were so heavily exposed to radiation that their hands had to be buried separately with other radioactive waste, and their bodies were interred in lead coffins."

Man, that's insane.

I like radioactive stuff.

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**EDIT: http://www.atomictourist.com/ebr.htm that's wonderful to know

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Last edited by whiskers on Mar-07-2004 at 14:56

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Originally posted by whiskers you fuck with nature, nature fucks with you.

True

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Ya, well, that's why it's called a controlled nuclear reaction. Once you remove the control rods, it's not controlled anymore, right? Keep in mind, though, that it's not a nuclear explosion that happens. When the control rods are removed, the water heats up tremendously and the H2O molecules split into hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygen then reacts with the uranium and forms U02 uranium oxide, and the resulting hydrogen explodes because of the heat.

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Their hands had to be buried with the rest of the waste, dude, that's sick

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Originally posted by DrUg_Tit0 Ya, well, that's why it's called a controlled nuclear reaction. Once you remove the control rods, it's not controlled anymore, right? Keep in mind, though, that it's not a nuclear explosion that happens. When the control rods are removed, the water heats up tremendously and the H2O molecules split into hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygen then reacts with the uranium and forms U02 uranium oxide, and the resulting hydrogen explodes because of the heat.

It's no small explosion either... sent the whole pressure vessel 3 METERS into the air. Holy fuck...

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Originally posted by Joost Their hands had to be buried with the rest of the waste, dude, that's sick

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As a matter of reference, an exposure of 1 mR gamma or x radiation results in a dose equivalent of approximately 1 mrem (with a small variation depending upon the energy and irradiation conditions).

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Average Dose to US public from all sources 360 mrem/year

Even through the lead caskets the bodies were emitting 300 mR/hr....

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Venus: And there are troops of savage giraffes whose necks are on fire, like the starry ejaculations of fireworks in the very pale sky of childhood ... Venus: Enter, enter here - men of all kinds and races, victims of reality! You who have the thirst for dreams. ... Venus: You, on life's bitter road, drenched in hard sunlight who have the thirst that once more the dark marvel of dreams...

invisible death... it's terrifying.

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Ok thats just messed up.

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