FireTower@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoTIL There's a 1.7 Billion Year Old Naturally Occuring Fission Reactor in Africaen.m.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down10
arrow-up14arrow-down1external-linkTIL There's a 1.7 Billion Year Old Naturally Occuring Fission Reactor in Africaen.m.wikipedia.orgFireTower@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square11fedilink
minus-squarejet@hackertalks.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 months agothe reaction is no longer active
minus-squareForester@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·8 months agoWhich is how we know it’s safe to bury nuclear waste.
minus-squareacockworkorange@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoNo. It just means the chain reaction stopped and it’s no longer in uncontrolled meltdown. It’s still emitting a ton of radioactivity though.
minus-squareForester@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·8 months agoYes, but it’s all contained to the same area still after millions of years
minus-squareacockworkorange@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoChernobyl is contained too. It’s not safe.
minus-squareSomething Burger 🍔@jlai.lulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·8 months agoIt is safe if you don’t enter the container; that’s what contained means.
minus-squareacockworkorange@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 months agoWhy don’t move next to it then?
minus-squareNotMaster@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·8 months agoBecause uprooting their life to prove a random stranger wrong would be a figuratively bigger disaster than the event in reference.
minus-squareacockworkorange@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·8 months agoNo lives there because of the radiation, you overgrown sausage.
the reaction is no longer active
Which is how we know it’s safe to bury nuclear waste.
No. It just means the chain reaction stopped and it’s no longer in uncontrolled meltdown. It’s still emitting a ton of radioactivity though.
Yes, but it’s all contained to the same area still after millions of years
Chernobyl is contained too. It’s not safe.
It is safe if you don’t enter the container; that’s what contained means.
Why don’t move next to it then?
Because uprooting their life to prove a random stranger wrong would be a figuratively bigger disaster than the event in reference.
No lives there because of the radiation, you overgrown sausage.