I’m watching Chernobyl on HBO and they’re describing the different areas of the building after the explosion, some of which they say would kill you within days or weeks due to the high level of radiation. They also talk about how they can’t even use robots to clean the material up because the extreme radiation will shred the circuitry of the robots. So, how on earth are these things constructed in the first place?
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The core is built just like any other building, the radioactive fuel rods are only inserted after everything else is done and all the radiation shielding is in place protecting the workers.
After the explosion all the protection is obviously gone, and in addition to that fuel rods actually become significantly more radioactive and dangerous after being used in the reactor, uranium while not exactly safe for children to play with is actually not that dangerous unless you ingest it.
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