FireTower@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoTIL There's a 1.7 Billion Year Old Naturally Occuring Fission Reactor in Africaen.m.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up1212arrow-down16
arrow-up1206arrow-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 · 9 months agomessage-square28fedilink
minus-squareacockworkorangelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up37arrow-down2·9 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-up9arrow-down11·9 months agoYes, but it’s all contained to the same area still after millions of years
minus-squareacockworkorangelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down4·9 months agoChernobyl is contained too. It’s not safe.
minus-squareSomething Burger 🍔@jlai.lulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25arrow-down4·9 months agoIt is safe if you don’t enter the container; that’s what contained means.
minus-squareacockworkorangelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down9·9 months agoWhy don’t move next to it then?
minus-squareNotMaster@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down1·9 months agoBecause uprooting their life to prove a random stranger wrong would be a figuratively bigger disaster than the event in reference.
minus-squareacockworkorangelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down8·9 months agoNo lives there because of the radiation, you overgrown sausage.
minus-squareForester@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·9 months agoTell that to the ukrainians
minus-squareacockworkorangelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down4·9 months agoThere’s still an exclusion zone to this day.
minus-squareSomething Burger 🍔@jlai.lulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down2·9 months agoWhy would I move to a warzone in a country poorer than mine, of which I don’t speak the language, know nobody over there, and don’t have any connection to whatsoever?
minus-squareIMongoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·9 months agoNo no no, it’s been moved outside of the environment.
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.
Tell that to the ukrainians
There’s still an exclusion zone to this day.
Why would I move to a warzone in a country poorer than mine, of which I don’t speak the language, know nobody over there, and don’t have any connection to whatsoever?
No no no, it’s been moved outside of the environment.