Not in maniac mansion. When you drain the water from the pool, the alarms go off and the core melts down. This would mean that it was being used for cooling. Granted, there was no heat exchange, so maybe it would not work after all. I'm calling activision. Either way about it, I am not sure you have your particles right. I thought alpha was heavy, and can be deflected easily, beta was next, deflected by something like a book, and gamma rays are light (eg, nuclear glow), so they'd be really light. Neutrons I don't recall anything about besides the fact that they bounce around during a nuclear reaction to split other atoms. In a land-based reactor, water is used as coolant... and something else in control rods control the nuclear reaction. Indium? Cadmium maybe? Wouldn't know about subs, though i heard that the reason russian subs didn't float/move very well was becuase they used lead to shield the reactor, and the americanos used a water shield. Water has neutral bouyancy, whereas lead is very not bouyant. What's the bouyancy factor? R? D? Q? i forget. Jim On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 16:40:10 -0000 "cruznmd" <racuti1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > The reactor is kept in a pool more for shielding than for cooling. > > Ionizing radiation particles are lightest to heaviest in the > following order: > > Alpha > Beta > Gamma > Neutron > > Water (H2O, especially the hydrogen part) is the cheapest, most > abundant element heavy enough to block neutron radiation. Hence the > pool. Lead doesn't cut it. It blows right through. > > Alpha and Beta are blocked easily enough by your skin and clothing. > I > think gamma is stopped by lead shielding if I remember right. > > From my first boat, we had several people who work "up against" the > reactor get testicular and thyroid cancer. Aux Machinery #1, the > torpedo room and the radio room (where I worked) are up against it. > One monkey's mate, one torpedoman and my Chief all got cancer, all > within a few years of each other. It may be un-related but I've > been "checking myself" monthly ever since. > > So now ya know! > > ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT <http://rd.yahoo.com/M=194081.3897168.5135684.1261774/D=egroupweb/S=170512 6215:HM/A=1706996/R=0/SIG=11p5b9ris/*http://www.ediets.com/start.cfm?code= 30509&media=atkins> click here <http://us.adserver.yahoo.com/l?M=194081.3897168.5135684.1261774/D=egroupm ail/S=:HM/A=1706996/rand=922114752> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> .
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