prius at nuclear disaster

lol you need to get out more



Saying that, my girlfriend is beyond annoyed at me pointing out the Prii on films and tv

 

There may be more than one....

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No offense intended.....I'm just not sure where we're going with a Japanese car being used as a means of transportation in.....Japan.
Priuses are a mainstream car these days. They're in the top 20 of all cars sold.

I'm not sure that I would want to buy THAT one in the used car market, but you never know. Gas is something like....$6.90 per gallon there (they prefer to say 152 yen per liter) soooo.....you know what high gas prices do to the used Prius market.....

 

lol lol... nerd.

 

I wonder what effect the radiation had upon the batteries?

 

I hear they are coming out with a nuclear Prius.

 

you need to get out more

 

I'm going to get out more myself, in my Prius, and drive up to Byron, IL, and get a picture of the car with one of the reactor buildings in the background. I might bring a geiger counter along too. Threads like these are worth a little bit of effort.

 

My daughter and I visited the Georgia Power Plant Vogtle, a nuclear power plant. While we watched we got to see a geiger counter used at many places in the plant. The level never increased. We also had small tags that would measure nuclear exposure. There was none. Now granted we didn't go for a swim in the cooling rod pools and I'm sure they wouldn't have allowed tours if there had been radiation but it was a learning experience.

When I was in the service, I was a 13A. I spent my military career babysitting nuclear warheads that would never be used. All the weapons systems that I learned are obsolete now (8", Lance, Pershing II).

Several times a year we would carry geiger counters throughout the entire igloo and bunkers. Over the years, we even joked that the containers were probably empty as we NEVER found any radiation.

 

^ We used to make the same jokes about the missile tubes on my boats. IDR what my measured lifetime radiation was, but it was lower than background which is not surprising when you consider we were under water 99.44 percent of the time.

Of course, we didn't suffer the same reactor troubles that they had in Fukushima...

 

When I was living in Rhode Island we visited this Russian submarine. While there, they told us an interesting story. This Russian sub is a diesel-electric boat (even though it portrayed a nuclear sub in the movie K-19 Widow Maker).

According to the story, after the fall of the USSR it was leased to a man in Finland who turned it into a floating restaurant. Having been inside of it, I have to say that would have been a cramped restaurant.

Fast forward several years and the sub was sold to a private group in the USA to be maintained as a museum. It was restored back to what it looked like during its operational days (The restauranteur had saved everything removed.). That is when they discovered that two of the tubes had munitions in them... NUKES! Talk about a whoops.

The sub was later used for the filming of the movie K-19 Widow Maker. It would be a pretty interesting visit if you were Providence except that it sunk in 2007. Since then it has been re-floated and they have tried to sell it on eBay.