Taken this morning, a vapour cloud from an NPS 30 km away.
" I love the smell of radio- active steam in the morning "
" I love the smell of radio- active steam in the morning "
Here's a pic for the pro-nuclear to enjoy.
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Steam? Yes. Radioactive - no more than any water is in the UK (apart from Cornwall, which is much more radioactive)...
Coal-fired power stations generate much more radioactivity into the surrounding countryside than nuclear ones do - strange but interesting fact
Coal-fired power stations generate much more radioactivity into the surrounding countryside than nuclear ones do - strange but interesting fact
Steam? Yes. Radioactive - no more than any water is in the UK (apart from Cornwall, which is much more radioactive)...
Coal-fired power stations generate much more radioactivity into the surrounding countryside than nuclear ones do - strange but interesting fact
Yeah, the OP is probably a lot more radioactive than that cloud.
Naturally occuring Radon. I used to sell radon gas barriers to the building trade.
Granite. The rock of Cornwall contains relatively more naturally radioactive elements (mostly uranium and thorium I think).
These elements slowly decay (very slowly, which is why they're still kicking around after the Big Bang, billions of years ago) and some of the decay products are also radioactive. One of the most important decay product is Radon, which is a gas and can collect in poorly ventilated spaces. It's dangerous to breathe it in because it can cause cancer. After smoking I believe it's the second or third most important cause of lung cancer, depending on the local use of asbestos products.
People like to test for radon when houses are bought and sold in Cornwall, see for example
http://www.cornwallradon.co.uk/
wow thats scary, the last time i looked at the operators manual for my camera i was sure that it took pictures not measured radiation levels. Most cooling towers produce lots of steam if the conditions are right, normally from water that has had no contact with any radioactive source at all........scaremongering at its bestTaken this morning, a vapour cloud from an NPS 30 km away.
" I love the smell of radio- active steam in the morning "
PS. have seen more steam from the gas and coal fired powerstation at Didcot.
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yep "great picture" however no scientific backing to the caption unless the caption was badly composed oilseed rape and condensating steamGreat picture, thanks for posting
I used to live on an island in the Clyde, opposite Hunterston nuclear power plant. The plant was water cooled, so periodically would have to vent steam. You'd be out and about, then hear a sort of explosive roar, and look across to Hunterston to see a huge mushroom cloud (of vapour) over it.
Until it had happened a few times and you got used to it, the instinctive reaction was to stare in horror and think "That's it, I'm dead. These are my last seconds"
Once you were used to it you barely noticed, except to laugh at the expressions on the faces of those who hadn't seen it before.
Curiously, the marie biological station that I worked at got a large proportion of its funding from Hunterston, in trying to find ways to avoid sucking up millions of jellyfish at jellyfish bloom time, as they clogged the water intakes and overheated the plant, causing it to shut down.
Until it had happened a few times and you got used to it, the instinctive reaction was to stare in horror and think "That's it, I'm dead. These are my last seconds"
Once you were used to it you barely noticed, except to laugh at the expressions on the faces of those who hadn't seen it before.
Curiously, the marie biological station that I worked at got a large proportion of its funding from Hunterston, in trying to find ways to avoid sucking up millions of jellyfish at jellyfish bloom time, as they clogged the water intakes and overheated the plant, causing it to shut down.
"wow thats scary, the last time i looked at the operators manual for my camera i was sure that it took pictures not measured radiation levels. Most cooling towers produce lots of steam if the conditions are right, normally from water that has had no contact with any radioactive source at all........scaremongering at its best"
WOW that's scary, last time i looked you'd lost your sense of irony
No one else find it ironic that a photo taken by, a camera/phone charged using nuke power, is then transferred onto a computer/online storage running on nuke power, then transferred to the internet using a router connected to nuke power, for the op to then put said photo on a forum on a device running/charged on nuke power, THEN in some sort of half arsed attempt to criticise nuke power?
Yup. 10,000 died of the tsunami, none from radioactivity.
Dangerous stuff, water.......................
