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Avatard
10-19-2010, 01:36 AM
http://io9.com/5664390/5-times-we-almost-nuked-ourselves-by-accident
Gas Man
10-19-2010, 07:34 AM
coughCAVEMANcough
Particle Man
10-19-2010, 07:46 AM
Look up naval nuclear accidents on Wikipedia.
Gas Man
10-19-2010, 07:51 AM
I would rather poke at caveman's work place!
Trip
10-19-2010, 08:30 AM
I would rather poke at caveman's work place!

I wouldn't, his place sucks. Mine does also. You really don't want to wander around one of these. It's boring and potentially harmful.
marko138
10-19-2010, 09:59 AM
I toured 3 Mile Island once. That was cool.

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m95/markgraves138/TMI/DSCN0204.jpg
tommymac
10-19-2010, 10:31 AM
I toured 3 Mile Island once. That was cool.

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m95/markgraves138/TMI/DSCN0204.jpg

is that why you glow in the dark :lol:
ShanMan14
10-19-2010, 10:47 AM
Gawt dayam, that's some scary stuff.:tremble:
Papa_Complex
10-19-2010, 11:38 AM
They forgot to mention all of those times in which aliens messed with nukes :lol:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1315479/Aliens-interfered-weapons-UFOs-deactivating-nuclear-missiles.html
Apoc
10-19-2010, 03:48 PM
Pfft... I've almost killed myself and others over far dumber things then that. Regularly. Not hundreds of thousands of people, mind you. But im proof that dumbassery doesn't kill. Not always anyway.
Gas Man
10-19-2010, 08:46 PM
I wouldn't, his place sucks. Mine does also. You really don't want to wander around one of these. It's boring and potentially harmful.
But you aren't part of that list!
caveman
10-19-2010, 09:28 PM
The Fermi 1 incident has been severly overplayed so many times its not funny. The worst part wouldn't have been the nuclear explosion. What would have been worse would have been if the coolant, which in that unit, was Liquid Sodium, had gotten to the lake. Not sure if you have ever seen the experiments where the scientist drops in a gram of sodium into a beaker of water and the thing violently burns just from contact with water. And that was only a gram or so of the stuff. Imagine if the coolant had leaked to Lake Erie. Thousands of gallons of liquid sodium in the lake would have relatively nuked the surrounding area. By the time the partial meltdown had occured the safety shutdown systems were already causing the nuclear reaction to halt thus stopping any possible nuclear explosion.
Trip
10-19-2010, 09:33 PM
But you aren't part of that list!

You still won't see anything exciting. We make tritium and that's boring as shit.
Particle Man
10-19-2010, 09:55 PM
You still won't see anything exciting. We make tritium and that's boring as shit.

I'm sure the tritium thinks it's exciting.
Gas Man
10-19-2010, 11:00 PM
Overplayed or not. Correct or not. It is the way history has recorded it.

I will hv to google tt other shit later.
dReWpY
10-20-2010, 02:00 AM
Overplayed or not. Correct or not. It is the way history has recorded it.

I will hv to google tt other shit later.

What is this Texas?

Lolz
marko138
10-20-2010, 09:20 AM
You still won't see anything exciting. We make tritium and that's boring as shit.
Makes cool gun sights.
Trip
10-20-2010, 09:35 AM
Makes cool gun sights.

Not this stuff. It's for making bombs.
Particle Man
10-20-2010, 10:03 AM
Not this stuff. It's for making bombs.

It multiplies the reaction, right? Or something along those lines?
marko138
10-20-2010, 10:06 AM
Not this stuff. It's for making bombs.
Make me some sights.
Papa_Complex
10-20-2010, 10:28 AM
It multiplies the reaction, right? Or something along those lines?

Think "H-bomb"
Particle Man
10-20-2010, 11:39 AM
Think "H-bomb"

I'd rather think about happy hour and large amounts of beer.

But I get the point :lol