08-08-2016, 04:34 PM
(08-08-2016, 04:24 PM)Rahizel Wrote:(08-08-2016, 04:20 PM)OdinYggd Wrote: //If I am reading it correctly, the mecha itself ran away even though without its core it shouldn't have any power. Either way, I'm calling it here- you went too far by dumping the core into the environment. We now have catastrophic radiation levels and must abandon the village. That core needs to stay inside the mecha and be cooled off by Danu's efforts with the water so that this mess can be cleaned up without resorting to god powers.// something else ran off with Gregor, the mech is scrap metal. Read it right.
// the core was miniscule, a penny's worth of uranium, and the core dump procedure works as intended and buried the thing deep enough to be unable to irradiate the surface. You like most people greatly overestimate nuclear reactor's destructive power, as there was only a brief flash of radiation as it went critical, and it now lies inert 30 feet below ground
//That's not how nuclear materials work, period. Firstoff, you need at minimum a baseball sized mass of highly concentrated nuclear material to make it work at all, and that's using Plutonium which is even more reactive than Uranium. To do it with Uranium you end up with over a ton of the stuff to even have a chance.
//Secondly, a critical mass can and will give off lethal amounts of radiation in the blink of an eye. Even a subcritical assembly can give off deadly doses with almost trivial provocations.
//30 feet is not nearly deep enough to shield a core. It would have to be buried more along the lines of 3000 feet deep in a concrete and lead lined vault that could tolerate every conceivable disaster scenario known to mankind to actually stay safe.
//We need to retcon this back to where the mecha was overheating but hadn't yet ejected its core. Otherwise Achroma Comito and I all face dead characters due to lethal radiation exposure, and the town would have to be evacuated due to contamination.
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