Rushin Roulette, on 17 June 2016 - 04:32 AM, said:
Please quote the part where I mis-represented the "truth".
Ok.
Rushin Roulette, on 16 June 2016 - 02:28 AM, said:
The problem with that theory however is that following the lore, these are not fission reactors (the type we know for RL and sadly see every few years "strike through to calm the nerves of some special snowflakes here" in the news such as Chernobyl or Fukushima), but small fusion reactors.
The difference in theory is that Fission reactors go bang like a burst balloon because they need constant cooling and a process to slow down the reaction. If this process does not work, then the nuclear reaction goes out of control and you have a melt down.
Rushin Roulette, on 16 June 2016 - 10:16 AM, said:
Why are you bringing this up again in the first place in a thread about hugging? Because you and others seem to think that a damaged fission reactor causes a massive explosion that should damage nearby mechs, and it doesn't. Practically ever. That's part of the irony of the Chernobyl story, in that it's so unlikely to occur by accident unless you are doing something really stupid and reckless, which they were in multiple ways.
Three mile island was about as catastrophic as we've seen in the US and it really wasn't that bad. No explosions, barely a breach of even the first few measures of containment, and it shut the industry down for decades. Know how many people died at three mile island or because of it? Know how many people have died since the same time from coal mine cave-ins, oil drilling disasters (new movie about that one coming out), or other general hazards with those occupations?
To give you some credit, you did say melt down, not detonate/explode or whatever in your second paragraph. But technically you're not even right as to why, and the wording matters. The nuclear reaction doesn't go out of control when the system starts failing. Actually the opposite is almost guaranteed to occur because Uranium doesn't fission in normal environments unless there's tons of it tightly packed, which it obviously won't be. Just like detonation, causing and maintaining fission chain reactions requires a great deal of intention and precise engineering. In almost all forms of modern fission reactors (Chernobyl being a specific exception here), the process is naturally a negative feedback loop. You can certainly cause damage in the meantime, but the chain reaction kills itself if it isn't controlled by operators or in the event of almost every conceivable casualty that could result from physical damage.
The chain reaction spiraling out of control is a concept that more accurately describes a fission bomb. A melt down, where literally the metal just gets too hot from the residual decay of fission products and melts down, isn't really from the runaway chain reaction, at least not directly.
Also, for real bro? No one was a "special snowflake." You just said something that could give people the wrong idea, so those of us that know better corrected and added to some of your wording.
Mycrus, on 17 June 2016 - 08:32 AM, said:
But won't we get banned?
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Edited by smokytehbear, 17 June 2016 - 11:30 AM.
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