Recent nuclear conspiracy at McMaster University

Ozrat

Ozrat

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Ah, McMaster University, currently the location of where I'm undergoing my degree. Home of the Marauders, MacEng, and potential dirty bombs. Oh haven't you heard? Apparently there's been a suspected Al-Qaeda member who's been invesigating into the nuclear power plant at my school of higher education. Interesante, no? It's a bit weird for me because I walk by this thing everytime that I go to study at Thode Library.

A map of the engineering area at Mac.
Thode Libary is #42 and the reactor is #15.

I'm walking by a potential Fallout source every time I go to a class (yeah right!) or the library in that area of campus. If that baby ever blows, I'll be the next Harold. Is this normal? Does anybody else spend most of his school days by a reactor?

McMaster Nuclear Reactor

Al-Qaeda at Mac?
Campus al-Qaeda nothing to fear

Al-Qaida suspect sought materials for 'dirty bomb' in Hamilton

[url=http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35339 said:
WorldNetDaily: 'Dirty-bomb' plot underway in U.S.?[/url]]El Shukrijumah has eluded capture. But Insight in field interviews has obtained evidence he was spotted several times last year on the campus of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Now, subsequent to Insight's field investigation, news reports are saying "an FBI source" has confirmed El Shukrijumah's presence.
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Google sez: Lots of buzz in media!
 
They shut down the reactor at my current U. But I think my old University (SUNY Stony Brook) Still has a reactor going. However they might have shut it down because the department has a close relationship with Brookhaven National Labs, which is pretty close.
 
Oh Ozrat i forgot, Laval's Red and gold is going to kick McMaster Marauder's ass.
 
Nuclear devices are illegal in Croatia, unfortunately. Our school has some kind of a powerful generator, but I have never seen it and I have no idea where it is. I suspect it's really a group of African slaves pedalling in the basement. :lol:
 
What do they sell? Batteries? LOL

</joke about pedalling from your racist comment :cry:>

you should blow up the reactor ozrat, you mutant freak D:
 
Nuclear devices... illegal? How does your government sleep at night without knowing your cities are powered by plants that could accidentally go super-critical and instantly immolate all the oxygen in the city in the blink of an eye?
 
kind of off-topic, but i heard that when NASA crashed their Garlileo space-probe on Jupiter, it caused this massive nucluar reaction. does anyone know if this is true?
 
I doubt it. I don't recall Galileo having that much fissionable mass to make a noticable amount of radiation. Jupiter itself gives off quite a bit, if I'm not mistaken.
 
here in chile we've got a tiny nuclear reactor for investigation purposes... i think it was closed but there is a gobernement office related to nuclear stuff... today i saw a vehicle from it but i don't remember the name

we get the electricity from gas, coil and water (hydroplants)... no nuclear stuff down here
 
The reactor at your university is a potential source of radiation, but not Fallout. =P

Fallout is the result of radioactive particles settling back to the surface after being blown into the atmosphere by a nuclear detonation.

I didn't know there were reactors at universities, however. One would think they'd be too much of a potential risk.

Its a shame that something so potentially dangerous is our only cheap source of clean energy. =/
 
I meant the game dude. As in why we're all posting here in the first place.

Clean enery? :eyebrow: Don't get started on that...

Yeah, this reactor was built way back in the '50s or something like that. The only reason why we have is for research, not for energy.

But still. Isn't this kinda freaky?
 
So long as people properly dispose of nuclear waste (unless they have a death wish) nuclear energy is increadibly clean and efficient. It has the potential, however, to become devastating, but as of yet (properly) run Nuke plants do far less damage environmentally than coal or oil plants.


I meant the game dude. As in why we're all posting here in the first place.
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Honestly?
It was a terrible joke.
 
And we know this as fact because it's only been around for the last 60 years and even less as a source of electricity? Way to go in believeing all of the intial reports.

We really don't have a clue in what will happen with nuclear plants or nuclear waste a few decades down the years. What if it all goes wrong?

Don't get us started on the whole Yukka (sp?) Mountain debate.

And don't give me the talk that it's incredibly clean and efficient. Are you forgetting about hydro power? Or even solar power? Those are waaaaaay more environmental.
 
The point isn't environmental, the point is that Nuclear energy is the cleanest form of energy that's still efficient.

Dams cause humongous effects to the environment and increase the risk of disaster should resorvoirs overflow. And solar energy is far too expensive and unreliable to justify its adoption.
 
Don't kid yourself.

Solar is the future.

And I know that dams can be pretty environmentally disturbing. That's why I only said it for the solar power one. But dams aren't the only type of hydro power.

You're also forgetting about wind power.

Nuclear power is something that was a good dream in the past, but is something that we should never come to rely on.

Move on or keep debating this with some facts this time around?
 
Wind power is pretty popular in Holland. Still not perfected, though. You'd guess that we Dutchies, with our windmill know-how, would be able to pull it off...Ah well...

There are historians that theorise the Dutch character was built by millenia of fighting against the elements (the sea, specifically), making us pretty unique in Europe (just like England is often considered to have a seperate history from Europe). We kick ass.

uhm, not the subject.

What about t3h nuclear fission? Bits of alpha-radiation and you're done. Don't sound too bad.
 
Wind power? Maybe in places like Holland. ^_^

Power that's reliant upon the elements are just that, elementally reliant. Which makes them unpredictable.

You can't generate wind power without wind. You can't generate solar power without the sun. You also can't generate enough solar power for the nation without millions of gallons of water and solar panels in the desert.
 
Bradylama said:
You can't generate wind power without wind. You can't generate solar power without the sun. You also can't generate enough solar power for the nation without millions of gallons of water and solar panels in the desert.
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The second argument makes sense, the first doesn't.

The elements are practically an infinite power source...Yes, they're finite and can be a tad unpredictable, but they're infinite. Fossil-fuels are in no way infinite, they'll run out.

We also have only a finite amount of Uranium on this planet, not to mention only a very small amount of that Uranium is suitable for nuclear-fusion (was it 235 or 238? I keep forgetting).

In other words, we'll run out of uranium a lot sooner than we'll run out of sun.
 
Hydro-electricity is the cleanest form we have so far (beseides the fact that we have to flood places and build damns and all)
Here in Quebec, it's our main source, that plus one coal plant and one nuclear plant (not in use)
 
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