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Actually, Chernobyl is categorized as an INES-7 level catastrophe, the highest possible level. It, alongside Fukushima Daiichi, are the only two radiological disasters to ever reach that level due to their effect on a global scale. The international recognition of Chernobyl is immense, and the effects of the event reached all the way to Germany and Austria. There was a not-insignificant attempt by Soviet officials to downplay the event, though. Word didn't break out about the event's true scale until weeks after the event, and even then there were attempts to shift the blame.

Chernobyl-3 was placed in shutdown around 2000, but it is wild that it lasted a little under twenty years after the Chernobyl incident. A bit crazy that the RBMK-1000 model is still in use, but considering the only ones that are still operational are in Russia, it makes sense contextually...? Still, bizzare.

Yeah France is way ahead of the ball on that one, which is quite cool to see! They're a great example of the safety of Nuclear power when handled correctly. Heart France ❤️

And yeah I think i remember reading about that. Though the safety protocols were severely lacking in the cleanup, due to the ground efforts of the people involved there were definitely folks who survived way longer than we give them credit for! For example, Yuvchenko- who held open the reactor door for several men who were attempting to locate the control rod mechanism (all of which received fatal radiation doses and died in the moscow hospital) lived until 2008 where he finally passed from what i can only assume was radiation induced leukemia.

Still, its definitely a very valuable historical event, and a very interesting one scientifically. Hearing about the Blue light of the reactor hall feels like something out of a novel, and knowing the hows and whys of it just makes it all the more interesting. Oooh nuclear physics how you amaze me .......

Oh, and for that soviet union era incident, throwing out the Anatoli Bugorski event. not sure if that's what your thinking of either, but he had a radiation incident in the 1970s that involved a proton beam from a particle accelerator passing through his skull.

Who else manages to yap and yap over their hyper fixations, or special interests, like so times I can yap and yap, about my special interest, which is nuclear physics, it wouldn't be so bad if anyone understood, but I just go on tangents about neutron flux, types of reactor, different incidents.

And whoever I'm yapping too, is just there, dumbfounded over what I'm going on about

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When you're just a silly guy who finally achieved his lives-long dream of building God and you've got your emotional support Harry beside you

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Yeah SL-1 was one of the incidents that truly cements the idea: dont let the military control things they don't fully understand. Just the fact that they left the control rod in the state it was in before the incident is nuts to me. The simulations run after the fact to try and understand what the events that occured that night are so interesting as well. I hate how some media outlets tried to frame the event as being a "crime of passion" though. the only villain there was the lack of care for the three men's safety. piss off about it being a murder.

OH and man the demon core incidents were also fascinating as fuck ngl. Especially some of the mixed first hand accounts of how Slotin reacted after the prompt criticality. Also the fact that he had worked alongside Daghlian, and had interacted with him after Daghlian's accident as well. my god. the descriptions of the ionized air glow are also so fascinating.

speaking of ionized air glow, holy shit you're SO valid about Chernobyl. Its one hell of a historical event. Just reading Alexander Yuvchenko's forst hand account of that night. Man. Even trying to imagine such a situation is rough. There were so many moving pieces to Chernobyl, and especially in the aftermath all the misinformation was crazy but expected for the soviet union.

Yeah, people tend to make things up to sell a more interesting story. And what's more interesting than adding to the body count? or something like that. Its a shame, because the truth has always been more intriguing than the stories people have tried to tell instead.

Daiichi is also very neat to consider, especially considering the insane meteorological events and coincidences that had to line up for the damage to be so intense.

Oof Kyshtym is very interesting as well. The soviet union was a bit of a rotten goldmine when it comes to hazardous radiological incidents. The gift that unfortunately keeps on giving. It's interesting to look at how radioactive waste needs to be stored though, and that event certainly gave a live demonstration on how fissile materials can feed into themselves to create a massive heat spike.

Three mile Island was definitely interesting as well. Its basically one of the few actual meltdowns we have of a pwr reactor, and by golly im still studying it trying to figure out how else you could cause a melt down in one of those. For writing purposes, i feel i should clarify. But yeah, there aren't many ways to actually break PWRs so this one is a great case study in how everything can go wrong. Loss of coolant accidents are very interesting in general.

And yeah, oof. Tokaimura is a grimmly fascinating topic. It gives us yet another account of how the body reacts to far over fatal doses of radiation, and man. Poor guy. There's a lot of misinformation spread about this one too, like that one famous image of Hisashi that isn't actually him. Still, i totally feel ya. This was one of the first cases i looked into when i was younger and had just been infected by the hyperfixation, and it still serves as quite the guidebook to writing fatal acute radiation syndrome.

Also im assuming you meant INES-6? Which, i went back to check though some of the listed events and im not seeing any other level 6 incidents from the soviet union outside of kyshtym. Maybe you were thinking of the Goiânia incident? But idk i may have misinterpreted.

But yeah, the fear that people have is not completely unfounded, but its definitely way overblown. ridiculous stuff.

Who else manages to yap and yap over their hyper fixations, or special interests, like so times I can yap and yap, about my special interest, which is nuclear physics, it wouldn't be so bad if anyone understood, but I just go on tangents about neutron flux, types of reactor, different incidents.

And whoever I'm yapping too, is just there, dumbfounded over what I'm going on about

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nuclear physics 🔛🔝

YEAHHHH YOU TOO!!!! nuclear physics is the bomb (and makes the bomb too.)

anyways you're epic and im very glad i found your post ^^

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RBMK YOU'RE SO REAL FOR THAT oooughhh what a silly kinda fucked up design that one has i love it as well....

ALSO FUCK YEAH molten salt reactors are so weird and cool its wild that they actually use the same thing for fuel and coolant. oh my god.....

Personally i do gotta say the CANDU reactors are up there for my favs. maybe its just a bit of ye olde canadian pride but i find it interesting how the safety mechanisms specifically had to be designed around the fact that it has a positive void coefficient. actually fuck it, maybe i just like reactors that have positive void coefficients. heat it up, baby.

also so real about the disaster research. what's the most interesting one to you, so far? I personally find the SL-1 incident to be one of the most memorable ones, though then again there's really only a handful of actual large scale disasters to pick from.

i totally getcha on the frustrating misinformation campaigns about nuclear power though. Chernobyl, plus the bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki years before really put people on edge. Considering how safe nuclear power actually is, it feels like its just a push from the fossil fuels industry to stop the competition.

i find nuclear weapons sooo fascinating though. the fission bombs were essentially an attempt to collide fissile materials together as fast as possible to leave as little wasted fuel as possible (simplified description) so they've basically got explosives inside the explosive to blast the product at itself. how silly. and thermonuclear bombs are even cooler conceptually. basically take fission bombs but add a second step with fusion (again simplified.)

yeah its understandable that it shut down. and boy do i love my the LHC she's such a beaut. make the atom smashers even bigger!! ten cheers and hip horays.

so real for that btw with fusion. i havent done as much research into it myself since my domain on hyperfixation mainly laid with the fission side of affairs. but fusion my babygirl still gets a shoutout. ooooh atomic particles you're so silly and strange ❤️

ngl i could never work in a power plant though because i think i would cause irreparable problems. im content to admire from afar and write about them. would be super epic if you got the chance to work in one, though! wishing you the best in your studies if you plan on taking up the subject full time ^^

Who else manages to yap and yap over their hyper fixations, or special interests, like so times I can yap and yap, about my special interest, which is nuclear physics, it wouldn't be so bad if anyone understood, but I just go on tangents about neutron flux, types of reactor, different incidents.

And whoever I'm yapping too, is just there, dumbfounded over what I'm going on about

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atomic energy lab

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Cherenkov radiation to me as someone who doesn’t know shit about physics fits into the same category as tide pods for some people. Like you’re going to tell me I can’t jump in that sick-ass indoor motel pool? So what if it has some funny equipment at the bottom. Whaddaya mean my cells are going to be fundamentally changed and I’m going to rot in my own body.?

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Bad and naughty GoPros get put in the punishment radiation beam.

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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, National Ignition Facility: Target Chamber where lasers are shot in attempts to do research and perfect cold fusion. More precisely research on inertial fusion energy in hopes of finding the most efficient means of nuclear fusion ignition.

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op. im shaking your hand violently. rattling at the bars of my enclosure. im also in the nuclear physics hyperfixation and its bad. someone save me ive been reading through both a manual on how the babcock and wilcox pwr is designed, as well as the fermilab tevatron memorial messages from the people who used to work on it/lived in the area after the 2011 closing. and also ive been dipping my toes into how breeder reactors work, as well as the oklo natural fission reactor. dont even get me STARTED on the nuclear weapons. oh the brainrot is so real.

Who else manages to yap and yap over their hyper fixations, or special interests, like so times I can yap and yap, about my special interest, which is nuclear physics, it wouldn't be so bad if anyone understood, but I just go on tangents about neutron flux, types of reactor, different incidents.

And whoever I'm yapping too, is just there, dumbfounded over what I'm going on about

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Who else manages to yap and yap over their hyper fixations, or special interests, like so times I can yap and yap, about my special interest, which is nuclear physics, it wouldn't be so bad if anyone understood, but I just go on tangents about neutron flux, types of reactor, different incidents.

And whoever I'm yapping too, is just there, dumbfounded over what I'm going on about

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Who else manages to yap and yap over their hyper fixations, or special interests, like so times I can yap and yap, about my special interest, which is nuclear physics, it wouldn't be so bad if anyone understood, but I just go on tangents about neutron flux, types of reactor, different incidents.

And whoever I'm yapping too, is just there, dumbfounded over what I'm going on about

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Who else manages to yap and yap over their hyper fixations, or special interests, like so times I can yap and yap, about my special interest, which is nuclear physics, it wouldn't be so bad if anyone understood, but I just go on tangents about neutron flux, types of reactor, different incidents.

And whoever I'm yapping too, is just there, dumbfounded over what I'm going on about

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Who else manages to yap and yap over their hyper fixations, or special interests, like so times I can yap and yap, about my special interest, which is nuclear physics, it wouldn't be so bad if anyone understood, but I just go on tangents about neutron flux, types of reactor, different incidents.

And whoever I'm yapping too, is just there, dumbfounded over what I'm going on about