I remember this well. It's scary stuff, man.
I remember this well. It's scary stuff, man.
Brave men.
The graphite blocks are used to dampen the reaction and provide structure for the control rods, basically it all sits directly atop and inside what used to be the reactor core. All these parts would be hotter than fuck with rads.
Imagine tiny rifle bullets hitting your dna and splitting it all over, that is what radiation does, the cells basically shut down and about the only real treatment is blood transfusions from someone who has not been exposed.
The other day was reading a story by one of the guys who fired Atomic Annie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M65_atomic_cannon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W48
They made them lie in slit trenches some distance from ground zero, after the blast he was to inspect a house and a tank used as test subjects that were directly under the fireball. The tank, a Sherman, was rolled a few blocks away, the house was absent. As they left ground zero a guy was checking them all with a geiger, he had over 300r coming off him at that time, kinda should have been dead right there but he lived into his 90s while many of his brothers in arms died from cancers.
"And how we burned in the camps later thinking, what would things have been like, if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain, whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?"
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