Chernobyl HBO Series

[Capebuffalo]

The wild hogs there are huge.

[fiddlesticks]

And they are good eatin'! Well, if you don't mind a few extra appendages and other mild mutations, that is...

Well the chicken sold at Walmart is pretty much more unnatural than anything Chernobyl can offer tbh, them chicken breasts on a cycle that would put ronnie to shame.

If I remember right avg chicken weight was .9lbs at 38? Days half a century ago and now it's like 4.2lbs.

[Beetlegeuse]

They wouldn't have spent billions of dollars putting a new (second) cap on that bitch if it weren't still seriously dangerous. There's still 200 tons of U-235 to be dealt with, lying deep in the lower levels where it ran to when the reactor melted. Four hundred thousand pounds of molten fissile material, flowing like lava down into the basement, where it remains to this day. That shit will be deadly radioactive for thousands of years to come.


The trailer for the film looks good. Then again, trailers always look better than the movie they're about. Not surprising that Stellan Skarsgard is in it. Seems like you can't make a major motion picture about the USSR/Russia or Scandinavia without Stellan Skarsgard. He's the Scandinavian Samuel L. Jackson. Need a glib, hip-looking, sinister black guy? Jackson. Need a glib, hip-looking, sinister, pasty-white northern-European guy? Skarsgard.

Four of his eight kids (and counting) also are actors. One of them is Floki in the TV series "Vikings." One of them was the clown in the film "It." They're like the goddam Swedish Baldwin family. Fifty-seven channels and there's a Skarsgard on every damn one of them!

The wild hogs there are huge.

Some Russian wild hogs were released accidentally on purpose in the deep south specifically intending that they hybridize with the feral hogs already there and produce something larger and more aggressive to hunt.

Mission accomplished.


EDIT:

This is what the "corium," the residue of Chernobyl's melted reactor, looks like today:



It looks like half of a Hershey's Kiss but they call it the elephant's foot.

[KennyJ]

They wouldn't have spent billions of dollars putting a new (second) cap on that bitch if it weren't still seriously dangerous. There's still 200 tons of U-235 to be dealt with, lying deep in the lower levels where it ran to when the reactor melted. Four hundred thousand pounds of molten fissile material, flowing like lava down into the basement, where it remains to this day. That shit will be deadly radioactive for thousands of years to come.


The trailer for the film looks good. Then again, trailers always look better than the movie they're about. Not surprising that Stellan Skarsgard is in it. Seems like you can't make a major motion picture about the USSR/Russia or Scandinavia without Stellan Skarsgard. He's the Scandinavian Samuel L. Jackson. Need a glib, hip-looking, sinister black guy? Jackson. Need a glib, hip-looking, sinister, pasty-white northern-European guy? Skarsgard.

Four of his eight kids (and counting) also are actors. One of them is Floki in the TV series "Vikings." One of them was the clown in the film "It." They're like the goddam Swedish Baldwin family. Fifty-seven channels and there's a Skarsgard on every damn one of them!



Some Russian wild hogs were released accidentally on purpose in the deep south specifically intending that they hybridize with the feral hogs already there and produce something larger and more aggressive to hunt.

Mission accomplished.


EDIT:

This is what the "corium," the residue of Chernobyl's melted reactor, looks like today:



It looks like half of a Hershey's Kiss but they call it the elephant's foot.

Did they release Russian wild hogs in the southern United States?

[Beetlegeuse]

Did they release Russian wild hogs in the southern United States?

The story I heard was there was a rich sportsman (in Mis-sippi, IIRC) who imported some specifically to release them (without asking anybody's permission). Whether they were wild or domestic I don't know but I have read several accounts that a goodly number of the feral hogs that have been harvested got some Russian blood in 'em.

[fiddlesticks]

They wouldn't have spent billions of dollars putting a new (second) cap on that bitch if it weren't still seriously dangerous. There's still 200 tons of U-235 to be dealt with, lying deep in the lower levels where it ran to when the reactor melted. Four hundred thousand pounds of molten fissile material, flowing like lava down into the basement, where it remains to this day. That shit will be deadly radioactive for thousands of years to come.


The trailer for the film looks good. Then again, trailers always look better than the movie they're about. Not surprising that Stellan Skarsgard is in it. Seems like you can't make a major motion picture about the USSR/Russia or Scandinavia without Stellan Skarsgard. He's the Scandinavian Samuel L. Jackson. Need a glib, hip-looking, sinister black guy? Jackson. Need a glib, hip-looking, sinister, pasty-white northern-European guy? Skarsgard.

Four of his eight kids (and counting) also are actors. One of them is Floki in the TV series "Vikings." One of them was the clown in the film "It." They're like the goddam Swedish Baldwin family. Fifty-seven channels and there's a Skarsgard on every damn one of them!



Some Russian wild hogs were released accidentally on purpose in the deep south specifically intending that they hybridize with the feral hogs already there and produce something larger and more aggressive to hunt.

Mission accomplished.


EDIT:

This is what the "corium," the residue of Chernobyl's melted reactor, looks like today:



It looks like half of a Hershey's Kiss but they call it the elephant's foot.

Havnt put much research or effort into nuclear stuff but its incredibly interesting that such a tiny amount of material that naturally would cause no issue could quite literally erase the world.

[Couchlockd]

Havnt put much research or effort into nuclear stuff but its incredibly interesting that such a tiny amount of material that naturally would cause no issue could quite literally erase the world.

It's not a tiny bit of material found naturally.

It's enriched to about 70-85% and was under fusion and melted down

Ore contains like 0.03% u235, the process to get enrichment is insane.

But once you have reactor grade, weapons grade is a shorter process.

The enrichment process is not linear.

Once it picks up "speed" it get going quickly.

[Beetlegeuse]

It's not a tiny bit of material found naturally.

It's enriched to about 70-85% and was under fusion and melted down

Ore contains like 0.03% u235, the process to get enrichment is insane.

But once you have reactor grade, weapons grade is a shorter process.

The enrichment process is not linear.

Once it picks up "speed" it get going quickly.

S'why plutonium is the drug of choice for anybody with the technology to build an implosion bomb. It took Oak Ridge two years to make enough U-235 for Little Boy. The enrichment plant was running so many centrifuges the tiny little hamlet was burning 1/7th of all the electricity produced in the US. And they only made enough for one bomb.

All you got to do to make plutonium is show (cheap and plentiful) U-238 to a reactor emitting deuterons. By the time they popped the cap on Little Boy, the reactors in Washington state were making enough P-239 for four implosion bombs every month.

S'why we're scared shitless of Iran having a nukular program. If they have a nuclear reactor, they can make P-239.

And once they get "the bomb," the Saudis will have to have one, then it'll be 1949 all over again.

[Couchlockd]

S'why plutonium is the drug of choice for anybody with the technology to build an implosion bomb. It took Oak Ridge two years to make enough U-235 for Little Boy. The enrichment plant was running so many centrifuges the tiny little hamlet was burning 1/7th of all the electricity produced in the US. And they only made enough for one bomb.

All you got to do to make plutonium is show (cheap and plentiful) U-238 to a reactor emitting deuterons. By the time they popped the cap on Little Boy, the reactors in Washington state were making enough P-239 for four implosion bombs every month.

S'why we're scared shitless of Iran having a nukular program. If they have a nuclear reactor, they can make P-239.

And once they get "the bomb," the Saudis will have to have one, then it'll be 1949 all over again.

Yes plutonian is the drug of choice

But little terrorist nation's don't have the ability to get the implosion set up right.

The fission, fusion boosted, fission thermo nukes are pretty bad ass.

Russia thought the czar bomb would not stop expansion. Lol

The pilot that dropped it, had a estimated 50/50 chance of getting away from it.

They said he dropped about 100-125 feet elevation when it detonated

Nuclear science is very very much an area of interest for me

The core used in the nagisaki bomb killed 3 people before it was even assembled into a bomb. They called it demon core.