Is this true that it can kill instantly?

also the faggot who wrote that doesn't even understand that "radiation" and "light" that allegedly bounced into the camera are same goddamn thing with different energy value

Yes, but the same is true for the photo in OP, which was taken 10 years after the disaster, and not with a mirror. Workers would take pictures by pushing a camera on wheels towards it from the beginning. Also, even at the beginning it would take 5 minutes to receive a fatal dose, not instant death.

No, it'll make you sterile if you hump it though.

You're right, but gamma radiation does not reflect off of normal mirrors. Plus, a lot of the harmful radiation there is not electromagnetic, but Alpha and Beta radiation instead, also which would not reflect off of mirrors.

N-Nani?

>OMAE WA MOU SHINDEIRU!

uh actually alpha and beta would reflect off the mirror the same way a ball reflects off a wall

gamma also bounces, just not as often

the real scary stuff are the neutrinos

goes through everything

>Also, even at the beginning it would take 5 minutes to receive a fatal dose, not instant death.
basically this. You wouldn't "die instantly" because that's not how radiation poisoning works (even Daghlian survived 25 days after receiving enough neutrons to actually BURN his hand, pic related), but your fate would be sealed if you got that close to it right after the thing melted down.

tl;dr
>OMAE WA MOU SHINDEIRU!

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Is this bait?

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If somebody dropped it on your head, it would kill you instantly.

So the answer to OP's question is "Yes, but not in the way you maybe thinking."

Rule 34 hereby demanded.

>unsheathes gamma rays
>decays behind you
>nothing personal, Sergei.

yeah

No, you will not die instantly if you were standing before the Elephant's Foot. You would die if you were to stand next to it for an hour though.
youtube.com/watch?v=wQtbbBWeLCM

He died later on though. Stand next to that thing for a few minutes and you'll be gone in a week. OP's pic is half right, in that you'll die by looking at it for too long, but it won't be instantaneous. It takes a while for the damaged cells to die, slowly shutting down the body. He started puking blood later that day probably.

I evince that you execute some genuine investigations before you proliferate gibberish.

The brother did not kickoff the game of gag belated. He did so forthwith.

You do not perish merely by contemplating. If you yearn to move on the afterlife by such a ludicrous fashion , you must possess substantial karma.

How the fuck does radiation destroy a camera?

Doubt it would destroy the camera itself. probably destroyed the physical film inside it.

>but it can kill you in several minutes
>you'd die or radiation sickness in serval minutes though
>You would die if you were to stand next to it for an hour though.

Why is Veeky Forums retarded?

It might give you terminal cancer

this meme has to die

No he didn't you retard. He's been down there hundreds of times. He's not allowed through the sarcophagus anymore though.

What? I'd swear I heard somewhere that the guy in that pic died. Well at least he must've been severely ill then. The radiation coming off it is insane

Artur Kornayev
He's still working around Chernobyl decades later

The most radioactive place on earth, lake karachay which is about 400 times more radioactive, would still only kill you through massive organ damage after an hour. Chernobyl could not kill you instantly, and I doubt any amount of radiation that's below the level of turning you into plasma could.

If you spent an hour next to it you are likely to die in a short time. Not instantly.

No

I seem to remember reading a scientists perspective on the containment of Chernobyl, and he mentioned that you could only spend about 6 minutes standing near the leaked core material. After that you were risking serious illness.

Interesting fact:

Did you know that the chamber directly under the reactor was a pool full of cold water, and that if the fire had burned all the way through to it there would have been a nuclear explosion 10 times bigger than a contemporary warhead? It would have destroyed half of belorussia and the Ukraine, poisoned the Dnieper river for centuries, killed millions and wiped kiev off the face of the earth.

The fired burned down through 5 feet of concrete. It was only 6 feet thick.

>Did you know that the chamber directly under the reactor was a pool full of cold water,
yes
>and that if the fire had burned all the way through to it there would have been a nuclear explosion 10 times bigger than a contemporary warhead?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
>It would have destroyed half of belorussia and the Ukraine, poisoned the Dnieper river for centuries, killed millions and wiped kiev off the face of the earth.
AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

the first exploion was a steam explosion
the second explsoion would also be a steam explosion, now with no roof to contain it
yes, it would irradiate the place much worse than the first one, no it wouldn't be a nuclear explosion and it most certainly wouldn't wipe anything off the map

>nuclear explosion 10 times bigger than a contemporary warhead
>It would have destroyed half of belorussia and the Ukraine

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>orangetext
how

>it most certainly wouldn't wipe anything off the map

I literally got that information from the notes of the chief scientific investigator Valery Legasov...

I respect his right to have an opinion, however, boiling water does not tend to be energy dense enough to obliterate cities 70 miles away.

>Tonnes of Uranium darkside, burning at 2'900 centigrade, being suddenly dropped into ice cold water.

Yes, that would definitely trigger a thermonuclear explosion. And all that fuel at once? in separate sticks? Huge. Huge explosion. What the fuck the reactor designers were thinking putting a coolant pool under the reactor i will never know.

>darkside
Uranium dioxide - sorry, autocorrect.

>Yes, that would definitely trigger a thermonuclear explosion
"no"

You understand how fission works

Uranium Darkside sounds cool as fuck though, in a late 00s way.

I've searched for it myself, but can't find anything to back up that theory. It seems like it would be possible, but I'm no nuclear physicist, so I'll stay out of it

actually, no, 2600 degrees is not nearly enough for fusion to happen. You need an actual uncontrolled fission bomb to make fusion happen. More like a million degrees

Uranium Darkseid vs Gold Superman

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omg guys, there's a mod or an admin posting here! Put me in the screencap!

fuck off steve.

>Burning uranium causes a nuclear reaction just burning gunpowder
Ok buddy

They are dumb-posting.

Apparently that mass can give off enough gamma radiation that if you were to stand next to it for several minutes, you would be exposed to enough radiation to succumb to radiation sickness.

Lets be scientific here, it's not the temperature that sparks a sun but the gravitational pressure.

Not if you're in a SEVA suit

As far as all that uranium goes, the idea is that it could reach supercritical mass if allowed to collect in large quantities in in one place. There may have been an area that would have allowed that. At worst, if the stars aligned, it would cause a hiroshima type event. It's theorized that a nuclear explosion really did happen, but it was essentially on the lowest end of the spectrum.

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>Did you know that the chamber directly under the reactor was a pool full of cold water, and that if the fire had burned all the way through to it there would have been a nuclear explosion 10 times bigger than a contemporary warhead? It would have destroyed half of belorussia and the Ukraine, poisoned the Dnieper river for centuries, killed millions and wiped kiev off the face of the earth.

Thats now this works. Thats not how any of this works

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>Yes, that would definitely trigger a thermonuclear explosion. And all that fuel at once? in separate sticks? Huge. Huge explosion. What the fuck the reactor designers were thinking putting a coolant pool under the reactor i will never know.

Fuck, its like reading one of Trump's tweets

>At worst, if the stars aligned, it would cause a hiroshima type event
the fuel they used in those reactors was physically incapable of ANY kind of nuclear explosion
I'm sick and tired of this shit, where do people even get these fucking ideas?

>how

SCIENCE!

Cool as that sounds, DC would fuck it up.

Because they see the word "nuclear." And assume the English language cares about if something is physically identical before making something lexiconically identical. To a layperson, nuclear bomb, nuclear explosion, and nuclear reactor are all the same thing. No physics education needed so long as they got English.

depends what sort of artifacts you have

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Am I autistic?
Why is the first thing I do, when something I'm not familiar with bothers me, to actually go and learn about it?
Why is this not normal behavior?

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Most people consider themselves not to have the free time to make such an endeavor. The reality is usually that they just would rather spend their free time doing something else. I wouldn't consider you autistic just because you have curiosity.

People are too cool for school. Learning is lame, being stupid and ignorant is the norm.
That permit easy population control via the media by politicians/illuminati, it's been a few generations now that this problem is ingrained in the general population.

Also do I have yo remind you that's not what autism actually is?

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did i do it right orange

god damn liars on google. fuck them

>implying that piece of shit is more dangerous and lethal than a pack of niggers

>being an unironic brainlet

You're retarded in an endearing way. Read up on fission, how thermonuclear bombs work and realize why a powerful steam explosion would be all that would happen.

>Being rscist
Uh, actually the term is pack of African Americans, bigotry is not welcome here

Senior Reactor Operator here. I' say that you are a dumbass who would believe anything any anti-nuke treehugger would tell you.

The molten mass you see is corium, a mixture of nuclear fuel, control rods, reactor vessel internal support structures/components, and the vessel itself. It'd be about impossible for the corium mass to achieve critically, much less a prompt criticality with a small enough period needed to trigger a nuclear explosion.

Remember, corium is not just fuel, there are also several different types of steel alloys, graphite, zirconium, boron and hafnium. The last two are control rod materials, excellent neutron absorbers. The corium is also very hot, causing a highly negative fuel temperature coefficient of reactivity. The water would only come in contact with the outer corium layer, meaning very little neutron moderation on the corium mass.

In essence, you'd get a good sized steam explosion which could break the corium mass into smaller sections. You wouldn't reach critically.

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read a book about nuclear bombs. jesus

Ah, someone who knows what he's talking about. What do you know about the condition of the core that melted down in Fukushima? Do you have any ideas about how to recover it?

my dude..
can I work at a nuclear plant as an electrical engineer?
I'm always shilling for more efficient nuclear energy than meme shit like fossil fuels or coal plants, and I would really like to know about this

>Did you know that the chamber directly under the reactor was a pool full of cold water, and that if the fire had burned all the way through to it there would have been a nuclear explosion 10 times bigger than a contemporary warhead? It would have destroyed half of belorussia and the Ukraine, poisoned the Dnieper river for centuries, killed millions and wiped kiev off the face of the earth.

what a cool science fact

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>physical film inside
They have that for still photo cameras now?

he was wearing a radiation suit though which shielded him from some damage
I bet his face looks 20 years older where he wasnt covered

Sad!

Many such cases

this is the ONLY correct answer.

What the fuck did you just say to me you little bitch?

Life in communist Russia was so dull Ivan eagerly signed up to get up close and personal with deadly radioactive lava.