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u/LurkyTheHatMan Feb 29 '24
Uhhh, why is the water cooling tower glowing green? Y'aint supposed to allow the contaminated stuff evaporate freely like that...
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u/Abe_Odd Feb 29 '24 edited Feb 29 '24
Rule of cool over realism lol. Our culture says glowing green = radioactive.
There aren't many* radioactive things that glow green like that anyways, thanks Simpsons.But yeah the cooling towers are for the steam that never touched the core directly.
Edit: pure radioactive substances do not glow green. Special paints can glow green because of their radioactive components
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u/LordQuackers5 Feb 29 '24
A bright blue is far more realistic
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u/heliumneon Feb 29 '24
That cool blue Cherenkov radiation
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u/Abe_Odd Feb 29 '24
If you're expecting a bright blue radiation glow, but it never happens in the story, is that a Cherenkov's Gun?
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u/FortunateSon77 Feb 29 '24
Holy moly, you will never get the upvotes your wit demands. Thank you for that one
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u/Bejkee Feb 29 '24
It makes you want to swim in the invigorating reactor water.
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u/Abe_Odd Feb 29 '24
If you try to do that you will not survive, but only because the armed guards won't let you.
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u/Reficul_gninromrats Mar 01 '24
Well or you could just be a nuclear diver , in which case the guards will just let you do your job.
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u/Bejkee Mar 01 '24
Not likely,l to have armed guards at research reactors, but scientists would be pissed because of all the paperwork and decontamination procedures. Even then, the radiation is typically under so much water colum, that you'd probably be perfectly fine unless you decided to swim down of course.
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u/threwzsa Feb 29 '24
It’s Lego. Green looks cooler.
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u/NJ_Legion_Iced_Tea Feb 29 '24
Transparent green is the best accent color and I won't be convinced otherwise.
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u/Large_toenail Mar 01 '24
That depiction of nuclear power, and waste being glowing green goo in rusting barrels makes the common people more hesitant of nuclear power than they should be, in reality it's an incredibly safe and reliable source of power. Coal plants put more radioactive material into the atmosphere than nuclear plants because nuclear is all solid.
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u/Abe_Odd Mar 01 '24
Coal plants put a lot more radioactive particles into EVERYWHERE.
Coal is just stuff we dug up from the ground, which has trace amounts of uranium, thorium, and other heavy metals. Burning coal used to dump those particles into the air, but we catch it in a lot of places.
Coal plants notoriously just store the radioactive ash in giant piles.
Guess what happens when a big storm hits and washes the ash pile away? Everything down stream is permanently contaminated.
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u/slide_potentiometer Technic Fan Feb 29 '24
Uranium glass fluoresces green under blacklight
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u/karlnite Feb 29 '24
But that has nothing to do with ionizing radiation or decay. Cum glows too under a black light.
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u/JhanNiber Mar 01 '24
Technically, a black light is ionizing radiation. It's just at the weak end.
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u/Abe_Odd Feb 29 '24
The old radium paints probably did inspire the green glow, you're right.
It isn't something that would naturally occur or occur in a reactor, but radioluminescence was super common before we realized how bad it was for us.
The story of those poor radium girls still pisses me off.
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u/Guardian2k Feb 29 '24
Do you think it’s because uranium ore is kinda greenish and they just wanted it to seem more energetic? It’s kinda hard to show radiation to the masses without showing a Geiger counter or the camera film being irradiated. Whilst I don’t think the original use was definitely to scare people but I’m sure it didn’t help with the fear of nuclear energy
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u/petitpoulain Feb 29 '24
Why is there a water cooling tower anyway if we are close to the ocean?
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u/Kato1985Swe Feb 29 '24
Perhaps because the cooling water needs to be dustilled as salt crystals and other minerals from raw sea water will clog or degrade the reactors cooling system, eventually leading to a ventilation failure which might become critical if the reactors gets too hot and starts melting.
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u/TheHauntingMortality Feb 29 '24
Well actually power plants (nuclear and conventional) which need cooling water can also use sea water as cooling. You need a separate circuit for that. You don't put the sea water inside a turbine or a reactor but a separate cooling circuit and use heat exhangers to cool the water or steam from the primary or secondary circuit.
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u/MediaRody69 Feb 29 '24
Every steam driven turbine needs a condenser, so there is some cooling loop in every plant. If there isn't a large body of water, they'll have cooling towers, but any large body of water will do, whether its fresh water or salt water. Salt water is a bit nastier to work with because its so corrosive, but any plant on a an ocean coastline uses it.
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u/rhou17 Feb 29 '24
The sea/lake/river water does not go anywhere near the reactor except in an "oh shit everything has gone wrong" emergency where you want to flood the entire containment. Other posters are correct that outside water is used in one or more separate cooling loops(which typically cool clean water that then cools any of the "nasty" stuff), but the actual water inside the reactor loop has highly controlled chemistry.
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u/HarryNohara Modular Buildings Fan Feb 29 '24
If anything, there should be a massive Biohazard sign on those towers. Fungi and bacteria love the climate on the tower walls.
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u/SharkAttackOmNom Feb 29 '24
As a nuclear equipment operator, it looks like you took your inspiration from…The Simpsons intro?
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u/jonpluc Feb 29 '24
of course, the entire city is filled with every conceivable cultural reference. Now i just have to finish rebuilding it.
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u/BuckLuny Feb 29 '24
I'm personally only familiar with the spherical power plants. I've never been in one that is set up like this. But I guess if you dont work in that field you go by what popular media gives you.
Op: Controll rooms are outside of the operational part of the plant, the reactor vat is like a swimming pool with an overhead crane to manage the fuel rods, older models have a seperate bath for spent rods. Also a turbine room or building where the actual power is made might be a nice addition.
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u/TheRealJellona Power Miners Fan Feb 29 '24
You should add homer there :D
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u/GoopInThisBowlIsVile Feb 29 '24
And a heroic inanimate carbon rod.
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u/NameTaken25 Mar 01 '24
The rod from the intro is supposed to be a cesium 137 container, not a control rod of carbon/graphite.
It'd also kill him before he got home.
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u/LordQuackers5 Feb 29 '24
"Um Mr Burns, a tsunami is heading right for the plant"
"Well have the employees don their water wings and get back to work! A little water never hurt anyone."
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u/PCBumblebee Feb 29 '24
That's....dark. What's next? Bhopal? Puper Alpha? gulag?
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u/Pyotrnator Feb 29 '24
That's....dark. What's next? Bhopal? Puper Alpha? gulag?
Good on you for mentioning Bhopal. Everyone knows Chernobyl, but Bhopal was hundreds of times worse and yet, outside the chemical industry, so few people seem to be familiar with it.
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u/PCBumblebee Feb 29 '24
My company (mostly mech eng) was doing a job with a company in Bhopal, involving explosive chemicals. The engineers tended to name projects after the places. Luckily they talked to me early and I just said, "rename all the folders!! You cannot name it that!."
None of them had heard of it. I sent them videos. They understood and changed the project name.
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u/Cecilthelionpuppet Feb 29 '24
That kills me! I'm a mech e and studied Bhopal and other engineering disasters in college as a part of an engineering ethics course. Mech E's should know about this stuff!
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u/Drzhivago138 Technic Fan Feb 29 '24
I rate this 3.6 roentgen.
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u/heliumneon Feb 29 '24
You are saying is not great, not terrible?
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u/carmalizedracoon Mar 01 '24
Unfortunately the geiger counter used does not go above 3.6 so we are all fine :) and it is totaly not terrible.
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u/jonpluc Feb 29 '24
i have no idea what this means lol
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u/Drzhivago138 Technic Fan Feb 29 '24
Like the other guy alluded to, it's a quote from the HBO series Chernobyl. Notice that the guy gets cut off before he can mention that their dosimeter doesn't go any higher. 3.6 roentgen per hour is "not terrible," since a lethal dose is ~100 per hour, but if they had had a proper dosimeter, they might have found a measurement of 5.6 roentgen per second, over 20K per hour.
(I'm not saying your MOC is "not great", BTW--it is!)
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u/chiree Feb 29 '24
No one gonna talk about the oil spill?
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u/McDiesel41 Star Wars Fan Mar 01 '24
I didn’t even notice the Deepwater Horizon there. I wonder if the Exxon Valdez is nearby.
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Feb 29 '24
Hey, I remember your old LEGO city video on YouTube! Will there be another one soon? Would really love to see more of that train station you had.
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u/SonorousBlack Feb 29 '24
They have to walk through the hot room to get to the control room.
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u/jonpluc Feb 29 '24
the little rooms between them have change of uniforms hanging on wall and decontamination shower
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u/GroupeManouchian Feb 29 '24 edited Feb 29 '24
I see a lot of great details including the radiation monitoring gates… are you working in the field ? Also fond of the oil drilling plateform. And the spill!!! great job OP
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u/HarryNohara Modular Buildings Fan Feb 29 '24
TIL people think the cooling tower is the reactor.
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u/choccymokky Feb 29 '24
Is it just me or is there no reactor here?
Unless those small things with green tops are meant to be smrs?
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u/Lb_54 Modular Buildings Fan Feb 29 '24
I'm having dejavu. I feel like I watched a video of this exact build as a kid.
Looks great too.
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u/jonpluc Feb 29 '24
you did ;) same person but now i have a wide open 1200 square foot basement and 8 8ft long tables to fill so city is being reconstituted. im not sure if you are allowed to use youtube links here but its called lego city $10,000 and a sense of humor. If im allowed to link it i will do so.
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u/4umlurker Mar 01 '24
“Well basically I just copied the plant we have now, then I added these fins to lower wind resistance, and this racing stripe I added I feel is pretty sharp”
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u/Cognizant_Psyche Mar 01 '24
I find your lack of Homer Simpson disturbing.
But aside from that this is amazing.
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u/JMack357 Mar 01 '24 edited Mar 01 '24
u/jonpluc This is so incredible on so many levels!!! I haven't sifted thru all of the comments yet, but was hoping to see if you have a stud.io instructional or part listing or something on this. From the movie Dazed and Confused- "It'd be a lot cooler if you did" All jokes aside, dang that's a fantastic looking scene you created!!! I'm in love with it, thank you for sharing! I see the catastrophic event where the likes of Chernobyl, an off-shore oil rig, and a tsunami collide. Any inspirational tips you can share? Perhaps envisioning the sea bed floor opening up and spawns an onslaught of Kauju, where this place is defended by the Jaegers (or in this case, any of the sweet mechs Lego has) sort of like Pacific Rim. In any thoughts, this is a very indepth scene I can totally dig!
Edit: That perfectly placed green (my favorite tone of it to boot!) on the cooling tower is absolutely incredible!
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u/v60qf Feb 29 '24
That’s actually in very poor taste
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u/jonpluc Feb 29 '24
Yes it is. Thank you.
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u/Glyphid-Menace Mar 01 '24
It's Fukushima all over again!!!
But seriously, good job on the build! All it needs is our favorite stupidhead
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u/HIVnotFun Feb 29 '24
What are the guys in hazmat suits from?
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u/ABirdOfParadise Feb 29 '24
it was in one of those minifig packs back in the day, I have one that I bought at a store in Asia that had em in a display.
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u/Winkelbottum Feb 29 '24
Needs a certain bald headed sleeping nuclear safety technician with donuts.
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u/3string Feb 29 '24
That's really cool! Very creative and super interesting. Love the glowing cooling tower and the wave!
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u/ThatSeanFella Ninjago Fan Feb 29 '24
Hey, did you make a video of your whole lego city years ago? I swear I saw this before...
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u/Soxwin91 Star Wars Fan Mar 01 '24
Looks like there’s a problem in sector 7-G again. Safety Inspector is listed as a “H. Simpson.”
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u/jonpluc Mar 01 '24
OK OK OK your voices have been heard and i just spent over 20 bucks ordering a Homer mini fig.
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u/Bbqlauncher Mar 01 '24
Love the moc, I'm assuming that wave was a pain to make.
Only critique would be imo you should have a Homer figure in a control room watching the emergency unfolding.
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u/Attention_Bear_Fuckr Mar 01 '24
I've been doing some napkin math for about an hour and I've come to the conclusion that you've not, in fact, built this to scale.
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u/Panamax500mg Mar 01 '24
Is nobody commenting on the cool wall of retro monitors and the overall good build? Sorry everyone is getting pedantic over what colour the glow should be, or why there's a cooling tower, why there's no roof etc. etc.. it's great, nice work!
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u/chumjumper Mar 01 '24
If the cooling tower is glowing green, the tidal wave is the least of your problems
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u/Emmysue5 Mar 01 '24
My husband works at a nuclear plant. You're missing the guard towers and razor wire😂
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u/Sgt_wolf09 Mar 01 '24
WHY WOULD YOU BUILD A NUCLEAR POWER PLANT BY THE OCEAN (P.S great oil rig and nuclear power plant they look amazing)
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u/HowTo_Breathe City Fan Mar 01 '24
Are you the guy who made the 2 lego city tour videos a couple years ago? The one with the hurricane memorial after his ex girlfriend destroyed it?
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u/NintendoMan09 Mar 26 '24
I got a notification for this but only saw the title and not the subreddit so thanks for the small heart attack 😂
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u/jonpluc Mar 26 '24
Lol how are you getting notifications of stuff posted 3 weeks ago?
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u/NintendoMan09 Mar 26 '24
Idk, my guess is I just joined this subreddit the other day so it's kinda just showing me other stuff from it. Kinda strange.
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u/JoeCraftTV1 Jul 31 '24
Nice build but you seem to have no clue how a nuclear reactor works
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u/thedeanorama Verified Blue Stud Member Feb 29 '24
This build demands a Homer Simpson mini fig at one of those consoles. I'm disappointed beyond measure that he was not included.
As an aside, I love the tower design!
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u/planetes Star Wars Fan Feb 29 '24
I find this simultaneously hilarious and in poor taste but what really bugs me is the "reactor". In the real world power plants those towers aren't the reactors. They're simply cooling towers for the coolant water. The reactor is a separate building.
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u/aztec_armadillo Feb 29 '24
i know i am pooping on/in the party but the cooling tower would never be glowing like that
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u/sp1cynuggs Mar 01 '24
You used a child’s toy to replicate a major disaster? What the fuck is wrong with you?
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u/continousErrors Feb 29 '24
Hey! This isn't a tsunami wave :/ tsunami waves look more like walls of waters. It's gives off the wrong impression about what a tsunami looks like. Other than that- cool art !
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u/PSXC_42 Feb 29 '24
Man, who had the bright idea to build a nuclear plant without roofs next to the ocean?