“I got in touch with a friend of mine who works at a research reactor, and asked him what he thought would happen to someone who 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.”
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Randall Munroe,
What If? 10th Anniversary Edition: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
