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-   The Barbie (https://britishexpats.com/forum/barbie-92/)
-   -   Nuclear Meltdown? (https://britishexpats.com/forum/barbie-92/nuclear-meltdown-708987/)

IvanM Mar 31st 2011 4:40 pm
Re: Nuclear Meltdown?
 
Being high up the place is out of reach of any tsunami. The locals are far more weird but is probably Shire inbreeding.

Originally Posted by LittleKittyCat (Post 9278325)
I live near to the Lucas Heights reactor, we looked in to it before we bought the house, but it didn't bother us really. I think they use something like 25kg of uranium (rather than the hundreds of tonnes in a power reactor).

Swerv-o Mar 31st 2011 4:49 pm
Re: Nuclear Meltdown?
 
Originally Posted by LittleKittyCat (Post 9278325)
I live near to the Lucas Heights reactor, we looked in to it before we bought the house, but it didn't bother us really. I think they use something like 25kg of uranium (rather than the hundreds of tonnes in a power reactor).

You still require the critical mass to get the reaction going though, so even though the masses are significantly less than a commercial reactor, Lucas Heights could still happily melt down if the correct string of circumstances were to occur...


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