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During the late 1970's a woman named Karen Silkwood was badly contaminated with radiation while working at an unusually poorly kept and sloppily operated nuclear fuel processing facility. The pellets handled at the fuel processing plant that Silkwood worked at in Cimarron, Oklahoma, (which has...

Much like holding a handful of fuel pellets, I'm assuming that holding a ball of raw nuclear material that is radioactive enough to be warm to the touch is bad for ones health. This is why human handling of nuclear fuel (such as at a fuel processing plant) is done through very thick glass and...

Was this the plutonium warhead core of an atomic bomb? I'm guessing it was probably radioactive enough to make you very ill within 15-30 minutes of exposure. Plutonium is the most toxic and dangerous substance known to man. I'm sure that the Manhattan project scientists were well aware of this...

Back then, did they teach anything about radiation in elementary and high school science classes? How many people even knew what radiation was?

Before WW2 and the dawn of the "nuclear era" most people were woefully uniformed about the dangers of radiation. Back then, radiation-producing ingredients were frequently included in retail products that would have been outright banned by today's standards.

Certain types of granite contain many different kinds of nuclear elements and can give off levels of radiation that are many times higher than normal background readings, such as this video shows. 300 cpm and almost 1 msv/h were the highest readings for this granite kitchen sink. The...

Before nuclear elements had any practical applications, they were used as an orange coloring glaze for pottery and various other objects. Please correct me if I'm mistaken, but wouldn't this coloring glaze be highly radioactive?

I'm putting together a new high-performance gaming rig and wanted to ask someone here if they could recommend a fast SATA III low-capacity solid state drive to install Windows 8 on. Boot times should be dramatically faster compared to an HDD.

Fry's electronics and newegg.com I bought most of my hardware from my local electronics retailer, but there are a few items which they do not carry in-store and had to order off the internet. I am quite impressed by the quality, convenience, and fast delivery times of newegg.com, I ordered 2.1...

But it probably wouldn't have damaged the core or resulted in a meltdown?

Theoretically, what would have happen if the hole breached the RPV while it was running? Could it have caused a serious accident or damaged the core/released radiation?

What is "LOCA" an acronym for? And how did this hole evade detection by NRC inspectors for so long?

Could you recommend a good quality single-rail PSU that would power the following system? Core i7 3770K 16GB DDR3 1600MHz RAM Dual SLI GTX 680 MSI Big Bang Mpower Z77 motherboard

Which is better for high-end systems? Single or multi-rail?

Do I really need a 1000W for a dual SLI GTX 680 system? Each GTX 680 uses only 195 watts at 100% load.