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There was a video about this I saw recently. Indeed, the person said the most dangerous risk is drowning.


I thought the main risk was from being shot by the guards before you made it to the pool?


The main risk is getting into a car accident as you outrun the cops down the freeway on your way to the reactor.


I don’t know why you’re being downvoted.

See https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/

“But just to be sure, I got in touch with a friend of mine who works at a research reactor, and asked him what he thought would happen to you if you tried to swim in their radiation containment pool.

“In our reactor?” He thought about it for a moment. “You’d die pretty quickly, before reaching the water, from gunshot wounds.”


So death by acute lead poisoning :-)


...only in the US.


Not from what I heard from a boss who visited a European nuclear plant.

The site contains the most dangerous poison on Earth, that is also a key component in the most feared weapon on Earth. Do you suppose in the UK they just put up signs saying "Sir or madam, kindly do not steal our plutonium"?


Hence the life vest.




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