TFLYTSNBN wrote:What I want to know is were those two Russian beauties ballerinas or tractor drivers?
On a more serious note, Russia has a reputation for nuclear accidents but the US is not pristine. Three Mile Island was actually a successful demonstration that the safety systems work. The multiple melt downs of the reactors at Fukushima demonstrated the superiority of Pressurized Water Reactors over Boiling Water Reactors. However; Fukushima also demonstrated that even if the shit does hit the fan, it isn't the end of the world. Just for fun, calculate the natural radioactivity present in the world's oceans and compare that to the radioactivity in a 1 Gigawatt reactor core.
They were both business students at a rather expensive private university. Exchange students. And they both graduated Summa Cum Laude. One missing valedictorian by a tenth of a point.
I just don't want to see such a pristine environment tainted. Then tainted more by tourists visiting the site decades later with some guide telling them that the reading on their dosimeter is equal to the amount of radiation received if they eat ten bananas then surround themselves by bananas for the remainder of the day. I get like this after every oil spill on our oceans as well. And I'd be going a few rounds with an American if we chose to juggle nitro on the ocean.
The Chernobyl Diariespotassium-40
A banana contains naturally occurring radioactive material in the form of potassium-40. Banana equivalent dose ( BED) is an informal measurement of ionizing radiation exposure, intended as a general educational example to compare a dose of radioactivity to the dose one is exposed to by eating one average-sized banana.