Nuclear Meltdown?

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Mar 31st 2011 | 4:40 pm

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IvanM

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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.

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Originally Posted by LittleKittyCat

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).

Mar 31st 2011 | 4:49 pm

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Swerv-o

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Re: Nuclear Meltdown?

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Originally Posted by LittleKittyCat

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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