lasing water

[Murudai]

Oh, those pond things in nuclear reactors? Obviously they put in a lot more water than they need, for safety reasons, so you could probably swim around the top quite happily. It's when you dive down close to the bottom is when all the absorption happens, that's where you'd be in trouble.

 

[laze_doctor]

Oh, those pond things in nuclear reactors? Obviously they put in a lot more water than they need, for safety reasons, so you could probably swim around the top quite happily. It's when you dive down close to the bottom is when all the absorption happens, that's where you'd be in trouble.

Well okay, if you science guys are _sure_ it's okay...

(jumps in)


Seriously though, looking at the pictures, the idea of swimming in one is very appealing.

 

[Benm]

It depends on things leaking out of the spent rods. Water as such is very hard to activate to dangerous levels, but any material leeched out of the actual rod is likely to pose a danger if ingested.

Then again, only radiological workers deal with the distances between a mess up and a real problem. It does come down to calculating the exact dose when acute healt effects are an issue, wheras the general public is to be protected from minimal risks.

 

[Helmholtz Watson]

I don't understand what the point of all this talk about reactions in the sun has to do with anything.
Calculating how much energy is used and released by splitting and recombining water is a simple enthalpy calculation

(I realise even this is miles off the thread topic)