http://live.psu.edu/pstory/26939Yea, so the nuclear reactor on my campus is leaking. It's been fine for 50 years, yet the year I start coming here it leaks.....it's like danger follows me. And people wonder why I try to be prepared for the worst.
This is nowhere near "the worst." Dangers of nuclear reactors are deliberately exaggerated by those with an agenda in order to ensure the public reacts in fright to the word "nuclear." Medical MRI machines were initially called Nuclear Magnetic Resonance scanners (NMR). They had to change the name to get people to accept them.
This reactor isn't much danger even if all the water leaks away. It's not a POWER reactor producting large quantities of fission products.
Unimogbert
(former Navy nuke operator)
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