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[-] csolisr@communities.azkware.net 3 points 1 year ago

Plus, I suppose that the small size of the payload will make the potential for widespread radiation poisoning lower in case of an accident.

[-] chaogomu@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

Small reactors often don't actually have enough fuel to actually melt their containment. And I'm talking Small Modular Reactors in the low MW range.

These pellets would be basically immune to anything even resembling a meltdown unless you had hundreds of them in one space.

No, the risk when dealing with items this small is orphan source. i.e. the loss of a pellet into the wider world.

Orphan source accidents are terrifying but also of very small scale. Usually one or two people who don't know what they've found and lose body parts to it, or just die.

Orphan sources are almost always from improperly disposed of medical equipment. Including the single worst case I can think of.

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[-] stmcld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

That was horrifying and so sad to watch. It also made me realise that most of us probably don't know enough about identifying nuclear contaminants.

I feel like even if we think we know of nuclear contaminants, identifying it and procedures on what to do in these situations should really be compulsory education for everyone.

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The worst part about that was that after exposure, it really seemed like a best case scenario. From what the video showed, it was identified about as quickly as you could hope, and authorities responded well. It’s it we’re missed or they didn’t respond like they did, it could have been much, much worse.

On the other hand, the people who knew there was an orphaned source and delayed recovering it for so long, apought to be in jail

[-] chaogomu@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't mind a more knowledgeable population when it comes to nuclear physics.

If treated with respect, it's the safest, and best tool we have to power our future.

Instead, we get a weird mix of fearmongering and ignorance that actually makes us all less safe.

[-] ruford1976@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

although nuclear technology is high risk and high reward.

i think we should give it a chance who knows when thorium based reactors come along?

[-] csolisr@communities.azkware.net 3 points 1 year ago

Still waiting on thorium and fusion reactors to be a thing. If nuclear is a necessity in the meanwhile, the least they can do is to build them in a place far away enough from the general population and natural resources, that way the containment zone in case of a breach would be a lesser loss.

[-] FireTower@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I really hope that thorium and fusion get the r&d & implementation they deserve. It seems we as a species have given nuclear a bad rap because the consequences of nuclear power when they occur are simply more visible than it's counter parts.

[-] Bipta@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

It sure seems safer than fossil fuels.

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