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Re:China's Yanlong: a small nuclear reactor strictly for dis... by vorotato on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @10:12AM (#15970173)
I think this comment shouldn't be downvoted because it's a common misunderstanding rooted in how unintuitive it is that water is so good at blocking radiation.
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Re:China's Yanlong: a small nuclear reactor strictly for dis... by Symmetry on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @11:06AM (#15970738)
XKCD had a really great illustration of that.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/

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Re:China's Yanlong: a small nuclear reactor strictly for dis... by foxyv on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @07:48PM (#15975376)
I love this!

> But just to be sure, I got in touch with a friend of mine who works at a research reactor, and asked him what he thought would happen to you if you tried to swim in their radiation containment pool. “In our reactor?” He thought about it for a moment. “You’d die pretty quickly, before reaching the water, from gunshot wounds.”

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