SKS radioactive?

I'm pretty sure you can get a higher radiation count just walking into Princess Auto, than with your SKS. The rifles were at least stored in crates bunkers and warehouses, where the radiated vehicles and equipment from the reactor sites has been robbed of metal for salvage and sold to China for goods shipped to the western countries. (ie; here)
 
RRCo. said:
A reactor with all the funk taken out of it? That would just...soulless!:D

I see they're building a new 19,000 ton steel roof for Chernobyl. Damned if I know why. They don't need any roofs at Fukushima so why the heck do they need one at Chernobyl? :confused:
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umm.. real simple, Fukishima had a containment building, and the reactor just melted down, Soviet RMBK reactors have NO containment, and they dont melt down, they explode because they have a positive void coefficient, meaning that when the cooling water boils off the reaction continues, whereas "normal" reactors use the coolant as a moderator for the reactions and it will stop when the water is gone
Anyways, what this means in that fukishima is fine, and chernobyl is just a huge pile of radioactive material in a half destroyed (by the explosions), 40 year old collapsing industrial complex, and if the sarcophagus collapses, it would disperse far more radioactive material than the original meltdown ever did
 
LordEvilPepper said:
we use a design based off the americains. In "everyones but the communists" reactor it is a requirement for the reaction to be self extinguishing if the coolant fails (more or less, a melt down might occur but it will not go KABOOM!)
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It's the other way around. The use of heavy water was a Canadian design. CanDu = Canadian Deuterium (Deuterium is heavy water). I work at the ZED-2 reactor in Chalk River, the successor to the now decommisioned ZEEP reactor which began operating in the mid 40's......the Americans didn't have a D2O moderated reactor until the mid 50's.

My $0.02
 
LordEvilPepper said:
we use a design based off the americains. In "everyones but the communists" reactor it is a requirement for the reaction to be self extinguishing if the coolant fails (more or less, a melt down might occur but it will not go KABOOM!)
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The RBMK had a very positive void coefficient in certain operating conditions. It was said even the head of the Soviet Union could not order a plant to operate in those conditions, though the April 25/26 test put them there. We know the rest of the story.

CANDUs have a slight positive void coefficient, thus the two, independent emergency shutdown mechanisms (control rods and boric acid injection). Regarding the States, reactors cannot be licensed unless they have a negative void coefficient. For those, a single emergency shutdown system is sufficient.

Regarding the tour of Chernobyl/Pripyat - I was out there for three days in October last year on a private tour, by myself. I highly recommend it! Two things to consider tho: 1) It is now against the rules to go inside the buildings in Pripyat. 2) It is allowed to go inside the reactor 5/6 building which was under construction when the accident happened. If you wish to do this, I advise ensuring that your guide is willing to take you in there (mine said it was too unsafe :( )

Edit: Regarding the new containment, they were almost done the first half when I was out there. The intent is to completely enclose the reactor and building (they're going to roll it in place over the existing sarcophagus) to ensure that any contaminated dust is contained while they dismantle the reactor building. There are beams built into it for cranes to be used during the dismantling.
 
it doesn't help that the tips of the control rods on the chernobyl reactor actually accelerate the reaction, that until they are about 1/3 to half way down they make it worse. The techniquins doing the tests almost stalled the reactor (which could take years to fix) and orderd the control rods out, when the reaction started to normalize... then rapidly accelerate they ordered them all back down... which spiked the reaction as the tips went back in.

CANDU were gen II 1950 tech, americans had reactors before that, but they were earlier gen I with weaponization in mind

but on the actual topic at hand....
I bet in the world there is radioactive SKS/ AK out there; profiteering russians digging them up.... but not so much in canada. Our ports have "sniffers' for radioactive sources, that whole counter terrorism thing.

this thread makes me what to play some more stalker... were ironicly their is no SKS rifle to be hand...but they do have swiss arms PE90's... lol
 
Customs can usually sniff out the radiation from a radium dialled compass, so if there is any radiation on those rifles it's probably pretty low...
 
Bassmaster said:
It's the other way around. The use of heavy water was a Canadian design. CanDu = Canadian Deuterium (Deuterium is heavy water). I work at the ZED-2 reactor in Chalk River, the successor to the now decommisioned ZEEP reactor which began operating in the mid 40's......the Americans didn't have a D2O moderated reactor until the mid 50's.

My $0.02
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Greetings fellow operator! I happen to work at NRU. Have access to geiger counters, but I think that our NRF would be less than thrilled if I brought my SKS to work just to see if it's radioactive. If there was anything on it, it would be contamination. Easily dealt with and nothing to worry about usually.
 
Just a thought. In the grand picture everything is radioactive to some extent. I find it hilarious when I hear about people in B.C. getting paranoid about Fukushima, but have no idea that they live next door to the Hanford site. One of the most contaminated areas on the planet.
 
BeaverMeat said:
Just a thought. In the grand picture everything is radioactive to some extent. I find it hilarious when I hear about people in B.C. getting paranoid about Fukushima, but have no idea that they live next door to the Hanford site. One of the most contaminated areas on the planet.
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Don't worry, it is a gun-free zone, perfectly safe:
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ciphery said:
How does the Canadian candu reactor design compare?
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LordEvilPepper said:
we use a design based off the americains. In "everyones but the communists" reactor it is a requirement for the reaction to be self extinguishing if the coolant fails (more or less, a melt down might occur but it will not go KABOOM!)
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Lord has right, but kandu reactors are not the safest design out there.

Someone can tell me where Gentilly 1 nuclear power plant is ?
The name changed after a *nuclear accident*. Government tried to hide the thruth.
I just don't remember the actual name...

I'm so glad they will disasemble the Gentilly 2 nuclear power plant in Quebekistan, the only good things Pauline Marois did for us !

What I fear most about nuke is government always try to hide the truth when there is an accident !!! That's ####ing freaking me !!!

For the glow in the dark SKS, I'm pretty sure every containers entering this country pass trough a Radioactiv detector !
 
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Good to see many here understand how radiation; natural or man-made, "works". For one I am not too concerned about radioactive SKSes, just a "what if" question... I have found the whole hype behind Fukushima Daiichi quite interesting as I have/had to go uncomfortably close to the area. I spent much time researching nuclear science to psych myself into coming here and found that it is, and always has been hype to bestow fear upon the uniformed public. I am in no way "down-playing" the whole disaster, it's truthfully devastating. It is very interesting how the media neglects to inform the public of the radioactive contamination in our own back yards. It is all around us, and Fukushima Daiichi is simply "adding to the pile"... the Nuclear Pile.

Nuclear power does not scare me... nuclear weapons do! In a few days I will be visiting the Hiroshima Peace museum, which is supposed to change your life. Say what you want about Japan's past, it was not "pretty", we all know that. But the devastation of an atomic bomb is by far more frightful. Watch the Terminator 2 scene during Sarah Conners dream. That is an exact representation of an atomic blast.

Some of us gun owners think of ourselves as "one issue voters". Come to Japan, any pro-nuclear leader does not last long.

...lol, I think I have had too much cheap and easily accessible beer... and good beer to boot!
 
I have to say that I agree with you Beavermeat. This is the first intelligent discussion about anything nuclear I have ever seen in the net. On average, most folks are scared and misinformed. As a nuclear energy worker for the last ten years, I can say that a little knowledge goes a long way. I've calmed down a few people the last couple of years. On a side note, nuclear weapons don't scare me, the people that have them do. There are a lot of safeguards in place, I just hope they don't skip a step.
 
BeaverMeat said:
Good to see many here understand how radiation; natural or man-made, "works". For one I am not too concerned about radioactive SKSes, just a "what if" question... I have found the whole hype behind Fukushima Daiichi quite interesting as I have/had to go uncomfortably close to the area. I spent much time researching nuclear science to psych myself into coming here and found that it is, and always has been hype to bestow fear upon the uniformed public. I am in no way "down-playing" the whole disaster, it's truthfully devastating. It is very interesting how the media neglects to inform the public of the radioactive contamination in our own back yards. It is all around us, and Fukushima Daiichi is simply "adding to the pile"... the Nuclear Pile.

Nuclear power does not scare me... nuclear weapons do! In a few days I will be visiting the Hiroshima Peace museum, which is supposed to change your life. Say what you want about Japan's past, it was not "pretty", we all know that. But the devastation of an atomic bomb is by far more frightful. Watch the Terminator 2 scene during Sarah Conners dream. That is an exact representation of an atomic blast.

Some of us gun owners think of ourselves as "one issue voters". Come to Japan, any pro-nuclear leader does not last long.

...lol, I think I have had too much cheap and easily accessible beer... and good beer to boot!
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The biggest hype was Three Mile Island.
 
Quiet said:
Here you go. Why your SKS glows in the dark:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luZtl2J3sR0
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So it appears Chinese strategy is to drop a nuke, then charge forward on foot with a bunch of grunts, and then send cavalry with swords into the burning fireball.

I like it, though I would add a troupe of midgets with sling shots and some circus clowns throwing balloons filled with battery acid....
 
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