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Post by Napoleon the Clown on Jul 7, 2011 23:43:36 GMT -5
So hey, this is fun! www.no2nuclearpower.org.uk/Chernobyl-UK.phpAn interactive map, where you can click on individual nuclear power stations, and see how much of the UK would have to be permanently evacuated if the same responses were put in place after a Chernoyble sized nuclear incident. Did I say fun? I meant terrifying. Its from a fairly rabid anti-nuclear site, so I take it with a grain of salt, but still... flashbacks to being a Cold War kid terrified of spontaneous nuclerar annihilation. Good times. Wasn't Chernobyl's incident due to complete idiocy, though? I mean, as long as you don't have...idiots...in charge...oh god we're all fucking screwed. Nah but yeah that's fucking scary. Chernobyl was because the plant design was shit in the first place, it was built way sub-par, and the icing on the cake was that they disabled what failsafes it had just to see what happens. Another Chernobyl happening is about as likely as the same person winning the jackpot of every lottery he ever wins in his entire life, buying only one ticket per lottery. Just because the Fukushima dai-ichii incident was rate as a 7 (the same score as Chernobyl) doesn't mean it was close to as damaging. And considering what it took to fuck up the plant (peak ground acceleration roughly ten times what the plant was designed to withstand and a fucking tsunami killing the emergency pumps), there's no concern for people living near other power plants, provided the operators don't go out of their way to disable the safety systems.
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Post by Yla on Jul 8, 2011 3:47:03 GMT -5
Accidents due to human error are not and will never be 100.0% preventable. The universe will always invent a bigger idiot.
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Post by matante on Jul 8, 2011 6:20:13 GMT -5
But those roads are also subject to vehicular wear, which probably does significant damage. Yes, but the potholes only magically appear in the winter, not the summer, spring, or fall. And I do expect the damage done to the roads there to be less, but 20 years without repair cannot be a good thing in an area where it freezes. I've visited the remains of a town that sank through the ground in 1971, and the remaining streets look sound. Vegetation is eating at them from the edges, but that's it. Plenty of recreational vehicles use them, but they're not very heavy so they don't move freshly thawed dirt out from under it. (anyway early spring is a crappy time for recreational vehicles) A picture from over there: And the brief history of the site: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Jean-Vianney,_Quebec
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Post by Vene on Jul 8, 2011 13:11:59 GMT -5
Okay then, I was expecting worse. Guess I was wrong.
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Post by Random Guy on Jul 8, 2011 20:42:53 GMT -5
Radioactive wolves? Does this mean I'll get wolf powers if one of them bites me?
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Post by Shane for Wax on Jul 8, 2011 20:48:21 GMT -5
Radioactive wolves? Does this mean I'll get wolf powers if one of them bites me? You'll become a werewolf!
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Post by MaybeNever on Jul 8, 2011 21:17:28 GMT -5
Don't be silly, he'll only gain the proportionate strength and speed of a wolf, plus some bullshit precognition thing, as well as leukemia.
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Post by Mlle Antéchrist on Jul 8, 2011 22:55:33 GMT -5
Chernobyl was because the plant design was shit in the first place, it was built way sub-par, and the icing on the cake was that they disabled what failsafes it had just to see what happens. Didn't help that the Soviets tried to cover it up, which was just plain idiotic. As if no one was going to notice a suspicious cloud of radioactive waste drifting out of eastern Europe... during the freaking cold war, no less.
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Post by Shane for Wax on Jul 8, 2011 23:47:20 GMT -5
The Soviets always try to cover things up. It's their shtick. >_>
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Post by Mlle Antéchrist on Jul 9, 2011 2:59:57 GMT -5
"Vlad has burnt the toast -- the Americans must never know!"
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Post by Napoleon the Clown on Jul 9, 2011 3:09:48 GMT -5
Just because.
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Post by Mlle Antéchrist on Jul 9, 2011 3:12:05 GMT -5
Is that the cover of a Goosebumps book? 'cause that's the first thing I thought of when I saw it.
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Post by Napoleon the Clown on Jul 9, 2011 3:34:19 GMT -5
No, it's a pic I found on Google. I used GIMP to add the glowy eyes. Really easy effect.
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Post by Shane for Wax on Jul 9, 2011 3:41:50 GMT -5
I prefer the original image.
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Post by Mlle Antéchrist on Jul 9, 2011 3:42:57 GMT -5
Well, all great artists are under-appreciated by their generation.
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