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kibwen 9 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool

If it was just swimming in it that would be one thing. Ingesting the water could be very bad, depending on what's in it.

PaulHoule 9 months ago [–]

They keep the water in an LWR pretty clean to avoid corrosion problems. Thing is the slightest almost of tritium in the water will light up a portal detector like a pinball machine on tilt.

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