<!--QuoteBegin-DaMu+Mar 30 2004, 12:29 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DaMu @ Mar 30 2004, 12:29 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> My grandma who used to live pretty close to it, told me that some of the employees were told to squeeze more power out of the reactor so they raised the RPM or whatever, but ended up raising it too much thus causing all of that.
And yes btw I speak fluent russian <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> That's what I meant by the "experiment". <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
And when I said boom I didn't mean nuclear explosion, I meant the container blew and took the roof off. Sorry <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin-BloodySloth+Mar 30 2004, 12:20 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (BloodySloth @ Mar 30 2004, 12:20 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> the death tolls for Chernobyl are far above 300,000 and are still rising every year, entire cities have been deserted indefinitely, guard posts have been set up around the borders of a big nuclear desert manned by the military, and everyone who enters for long periods of time has to get a chemical shower. There's enough radiation in some areas to kill you in less than 15 minutes, and stain trees red. I think Three Mile Island was a little small compared to Chernobyl. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Your arguments miss the entire point. Three Miles Island was very close to a total meltdown which would have resulted in a catastrophe similar to the one that occured in Chernobyl in 1986. I am saying that it was close to a meltdown, not that the results of Three Miles Island are close to the effects of Chernobyl. They would have been if they had not regained control of the partially melted reactor.
<!--QuoteBegin-Grillkohle+Mar 30 2004, 05:26 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Grillkohle @ Mar 30 2004, 05:26 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-BloodySloth+Mar 30 2004, 12:20 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (BloodySloth @ Mar 30 2004, 12:20 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> the death tolls for Chernobyl are far above 300,000 and are still rising every year, entire cities have been deserted indefinitely, guard posts have been set up around the borders of a big nuclear desert manned by the military, and everyone who enters for long periods of time has to get a chemical shower. There's enough radiation in some areas to kill you in less than 15 minutes, and stain trees red. I think Three Mile Island was a little small compared to Chernobyl. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Your arguments miss the entire point. Three Miles Island was very close to a total meltdown which would have resulted in a catastrophe similar to the one that occured in Chernobyl in 1986. I am saying that it was close to a meltdown, not that the results of Three Miles Island are close to the effects of Chernobyl. They would have been if they had not regained control of the partially melted reactor. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Where exactly is Three Miles Island? North or East?
<!--QuoteBegin-Grillkohle+Mar 30 2004, 11:26 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Grillkohle @ Mar 30 2004, 11:26 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Your arguments miss the entire point. Three Miles Island was very close to a total meltdown which would have resulted in a catastrophe similar to the one that occured in Chernobyl in 1986. I am saying that it was close to a meltdown, not that the results of Three Miles Island are close to the effects of Chernobyl. They would have been if they had not regained control of the partially melted reactor. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> My mistake, I thought you were comparing the effects of what happened.
I find the idea that nature is fine without us more comforting than disturbing =3
As for radiation, your death depends on the levels... if it's high enough you just cook to death, while at lower levels you die slowly from radiation sickness... first you start finding blood in your urine and your skin deteriates while your hair falls out, your teeth start to fall out after that while your gums bleed and eventually you die as your internal organs suffer catastrophic failure. Of course, all of this is usually prolonged over a long period of time, how long depends on the actual amount of radiation in your system =s
The invisible death thing would be interesting in games but for real-life it's easy to see why it'd strike terror in peoples hearts. The worst thing of course being that you know you're going to die and there's nothing you can do about it; like a zombie bite in dawn of the dead o.O
<!--QuoteBegin-Maveric+Mar 30 2004, 01:06 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Maveric @ Mar 30 2004, 01:06 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I think the reactor in Chernobyl was so hot it litterally melted the concrete under it and sank afew kilometers down through the surface of the earth... <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> the melted fuel rods did melt though the concrete reactor and thinto the basement, but not into the earths crust, they stopped it before it got that far.
if it did it would have been the first occurance of the china syndrome (no idea why its called that) and that is extremely bad news, if it gets far enough down to puch thought into the magma below, and it would, what we would then have is a radioactive, very active man-made volcano <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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some of the employees were told to squeeze more power
out of the reactor so they raised the RPM or whatever, but ended
up raising it too much thus causing all of that.
And yes btw I speak fluent russian <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
That's what I meant by the "experiment". <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
And when I said boom I didn't mean nuclear explosion, I meant the container blew and took the roof off. Sorry <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Your arguments miss the entire point.
Three Miles Island was very close to a total meltdown which would have resulted in a catastrophe similar to the one that occured in Chernobyl in 1986.
I am saying that it was close to a meltdown, not that the results of Three Miles Island are close to the effects of Chernobyl.
They would have been if they had not regained control of the partially melted reactor.
Your arguments miss the entire point.
Three Miles Island was very close to a total meltdown which would have resulted in a catastrophe similar to the one that occured in Chernobyl in 1986.
I am saying that it was close to a meltdown, not that the results of Three Miles Island are close to the effects of Chernobyl.
They would have been if they had not regained control of the partially melted reactor. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Where exactly is Three Miles Island? North or East?
Where exactly is Three Miles Island? North or East? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
<a href='http://www.pahighways.com/features/threemileisland.html' target='_blank'>http://www.pahighways.com/features/threemileisland.html</a>
<img src='http://www.pahighways.com/graphics/maps/TMIandHbg.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
HTH.
I agree with Grillkohle entirely. Three Mile Island is just a slightly more fortunate version of Chernobyl.
Those pictures are pretty damn moving. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Three Miles Island was very close to a total meltdown which would have resulted in a catastrophe similar to the one that occured in Chernobyl in 1986.
I am saying that it was close to a meltdown, not that the results of Three Miles Island are close to the effects of Chernobyl.
They would have been if they had not regained control of the partially melted reactor. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
My mistake, I thought you were comparing the effects of what happened.
As for radiation, your death depends on the levels... if it's high enough you just cook to death, while at lower levels you die slowly from radiation sickness... first you start finding blood in your urine and your skin deteriates while your hair falls out, your teeth start to fall out after that while your gums bleed and eventually you die as your internal organs suffer catastrophic failure. Of course, all of this is usually prolonged over a long period of time, how long depends on the actual amount of radiation in your system =s
The invisible death thing would be interesting in games but for real-life it's easy to see why it'd strike terror in peoples hearts. The worst thing of course being that you know you're going to die and there's nothing you can do about it; like a zombie bite in dawn of the dead o.O
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the melted fuel rods did melt though the concrete reactor and thinto the basement, but not into the earths crust, they stopped it before it got that far.
if it did it would have been the first occurance of the china syndrome (no idea why its called that) and that is extremely bad news, if it gets far enough down to puch thought into the magma below, and it would, what we would then have is a radioactive, very active man-made volcano <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo-->