The best thing about living next to a nuke plant is... - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: cthree
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 03, 2013, 04:14:20 am
content: The newsletter

author: EEVblog
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timestamp: July 03, 2013, 04:47:05 am
content: and cheap house prices?

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 03, 2013, 04:58:14 am
content: And a free hearing test every month!

author: cthree
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 03, 2013, 05:17:01 am
content: I didn't get any of those things! All i got were these lousy iodine pills. I need to call my agent.

author: Stonent
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 03, 2013, 05:23:31 am
content: I almost took a job at a nuclear power plant in IT, but it was really a longer drive than I wanted so I passed on it.

author: Orpheus
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: July 03, 2013, 05:58:00 am
content: I was going to say "the pre-fried fish & chips", myself.Fresh from the pond and garden, never even hit a pan!

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 03, 2013, 06:01:50 am
content: And each fish comes with a spare head!

author: smashedProton
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 03, 2013, 06:27:49 am
content: You should see if you can do any chemistry with the iodine!

author: rkupka
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: July 03, 2013, 06:33:42 am
content: ... and tomatoes grow twice as big as regular ones

author: obiwanjacobi
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 03, 2013, 06:43:04 am
content: No fun playing hide and seek after sun down. Everything is glow in the dark!

author: ecat
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timestamp: July 03, 2013, 06:54:36 am
content: You save a fortune on glow in the dark condoms.

author: Stonent
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 03, 2013, 07:27:58 am
content: Well initially, I was googling for thisBut then found this....http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/marc-cryan/blinky-fish

author: nctnico
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 03, 2013, 10:20:48 am
content: Ask any person from France:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France

author: digsys
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 03, 2013, 10:56:12 am
content: Speaking of noocalor ... I remember seeing a show on mining in Russia, after the end of the iron curtain. Coal mining companies couldapply for nukes to blast the open cut quarries (stoopid westerners and their pathetic dynamite). They ran aerial background radiationsurveys along all the coal sites and rivers and they stood out like bright lights. Not only coal for heating, you didn't need the lights on !!

author: DenzilPenberthy
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 03, 2013, 11:11:49 am
content: It wasn't just the Russians who were into nuclear civil engineering...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plowshare

author: digsys
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 03, 2013, 11:57:48 am
content: Quote from: DenzilPenberthy on July 03, 2013, 11:11:49 amYIKES !!!! With a capitalF

author: Poe
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 03, 2013, 12:21:06 pm
content: I live less than a thousand yards from TMI, my entire back yard is their cooling stacks. No newsletter. Maybe they need to put all that newsletter money into the soldiers that keep me here.

author: staxquad
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 03, 2013, 12:33:52 pm
content: The best thing about living next to a nuke plant is...1-being able to install and wait for a Maxwell Nuclear Event Detector to light up a led2-being able to make use of that Geiger counter that was just sitting in the drawer at another location3-being able to drink water with extra neutrons (Ann Coulter says it's healthier than normal water)4-being on constant alert keeps the senses sharp maybe contributing to less senility if you live long enough after the nuclear plant sickens you5-is that it's you and not me living next to a nuke plant

author: Wytnucls
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 03, 2013, 01:03:41 pm
content: Not having to put up with irritating neighbors....

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 03, 2013, 07:01:08 pm
content: Shoot, and there I was doing training at the nuclear separation plant at Pelindaba. Never even got a peep out of the geiger counters, though a bit of fun was the local rainwater one day being a few counts above background in the one catchment pond.If I was living right next door to an active reactor i would ask them to give me a cooling water feed for heating, and put up a few greenhouses or have whole house heating all year round from it, or at least a shower that ran always.The favourite thing that sailors on nuclear powered ships appreciate is that there is always hot fresh water for showers on the ship, with no limit on the amount you can use in the shower.

author: MacAttak
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 04, 2013, 12:58:14 am
content: Quote from: Stonent on July 03, 2013, 07:27:58 amI backed that oneIt actually wasn't a scam. Exactly as advertised.