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    Nuclear reactor personification!?

    Operator A: "This... is a natrium leak, isn't it?"
    Operator B: "Yep. We need to take some good data!"
    Operator C: "It's gotten too dangerous! Seriously! It's going to catch fire!"
    Nuclear reactor: "Uwoooooooo!!! Mm... noooooooooooooooo!!!!!"

    Sorry. I really don't know anything about nuclear reactors. I kind of just wanted to draw clothes ripped open by heat.

    Likely a reference to the 1995 Monju Nuclear Power Plant leak

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    seabook
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    Evangeline_A.K._McDowell said:
    Operator A: "This... is a natrium leak, isn't it?"

    Natrium is the Latin name for Sodium (Sodium has elemental symbol Na). This suggests that the reactor is a molten salt type, rather than a light water type (such as at Fukushima) and is instead graphite moderated (like at Chernobyl).

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    ezekill
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    seabook said:
    Natrium is the Latin name for Sodium (Sodium has elemental symbol Na). This suggests that the reactor is a molten salt type, rather than a light water type (such as at Fukushima) and is instead graphite moderated (like at Chernobyl).

    wait.... isnt that the same build that had issues which eventually went boom?

    if so, may God help Japan...

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    alphamone
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    molten salts are actualy the newest types. Graphite moderation is actualy extremely obsolete (as in, it was used in the initial nuclear piles, and never should have been used in a proper reactor).

    Also, this is one of a few images that would probably fit under a "harsher in hindsight" pool

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