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[Xantalos]

While I know a far more effective way to kill most of the US, I won't reveal it here.

Does it involve opening one of your thousand mouths and singing the song that ends the world?

Actually no. It involves

Spoiler: Sedition within (click to show/hide)

cracking the tanks for the radioactive storage cooling rods in the 32 plants they have around the country, releasing the water to go flooding out. Without that to keep them cool they will ignite and be impossible to put out. The radioactive smoke will spread for hundreds of thousands of miles and kill many while spreading radiation poisoning. These things are lightly guarded and the guards aren't highly motivated to protect them. The government has known about this for ~30 years I think. They know it's a huge breach in security but politics.

[Fniff]

Spoiler: Taking advantage of terrorist attacks (click to show/hide)

Then you sell makeshift gasmasks, faulty HAZMAT suits, and "iodine" tablets that look like sugar pills to everyone in America and gain billions.

[Loud Whispers]

Actually no. It involves

Spoiler: Sedition within (click to show/hide)

cracking the tanks for the radioactive storage cooling rods in the 32 plants they have around the country, releasing the water to go flooding out. Without that to keep them cool they will ignite and be impossible to put out. The radioactive smoke will spread for hundreds of thousands of miles and kill many while spreading radiation poisoning. These things are lightly guarded and the guards aren't highly motivated to protect them. The government has known about this for ~30 years I think. They know it's a huge breach in security but politics.

You are talking about cracking some of the world's best guarded and structurally sound buildings mankind's ever created right? In the country with some of the highest industrial safety records?
Admittedly, a quarter of them could run afoul an Earthquake of particular magnitude. And nothing's impenetrable. But even with all of them melting down it'd be hardly anything close to apocalyptic. The power outages would be more harmful.
Not to mention the reaction could be shut down with the control rods. And if one plant was compromised, every single other one would be on TERRARISHTS alert.

[Xantalos]

Actually no. It involves

Spoiler: Sedition within (click to show/hide)

cracking the tanks for the radioactive storage cooling rods in the 32 plants they have around the country, releasing the water to go flooding out. Without that to keep them cool they will ignite and be impossible to put out. The radioactive smoke will spread for hundreds of thousands of miles and kill many while spreading radiation poisoning. These things are lightly guarded and the guards aren't highly motivated to protect them. The government has known about this for ~30 years I think. They know it's a huge breach in security but politics.

You are talking about cracking some of the world's best guarded and structurally sound buildings mankind's ever created right? In the country with some of the highest industrial safety records?
Admittedly, a quarter of them could run afoul an Earthquake of particular magnitude. And nothing's impenetrable. But even with all of them melting down it'd be hardly anything close to apocalyptic. The power outages would be more harmful.
Not to mention the reaction could be shut down with the control rods. And if one plant was compromised, every single other one would be on TERRARISHTS alert.

I'm talking about the rods they keep in the water tanks. Literally all I'd have to do is get some explosives in there - and these things are almost literally guarded by rentacops - and boom, at least a million people dead.

[Loud Whispers]

I'm talking about the rods they keep in the water tanks. Literally all I'd have to do is get some explosives in there - and these things are almost literally guarded by rentacops - and boom, at least a million people dead.

The fuel in every commercial reactor is never enriched enough to go critically boom. Fukushima had a triple meltdown and had 200 workers day and night operating within it. The amount of people killed would be about 0; unless of course the explosives themselves killed any unlucky workers.

So you'd have to target a military station, which is surprisingly enough, guarded by the military.

[SalmonGod]

Dad is going through an ablation procedure to treat heart arrhythmia in about a month.  It's a fairly low-risk procedure, with only about 2% risk of anything going seriously wrong.  Still feel like I should come up with some creative good luck/positive energy gesture.

[Morrigi]

Actually no. It involves

Spoiler: Sedition within (click to show/hide)

cracking the tanks for the radioactive storage cooling rods in the 32 plants they have around the country, releasing the water to go flooding out. Without that to keep them cool they will ignite and be impossible to put out. The radioactive smoke will spread for hundreds of thousands of miles and kill many while spreading radiation poisoning. These things are lightly guarded and the guards aren't highly motivated to protect them. The government has known about this for ~30 years I think. They know it's a huge breach in security but politics.

You are talking about cracking some of the world's best guarded and structurally sound buildings mankind's ever created right? In the country with some of the highest industrial safety records?
Admittedly, a quarter of them could run afoul an Earthquake of particular magnitude. And nothing's impenetrable. But even with all of them melting down it'd be hardly anything close to apocalyptic. The power outages would be more harmful.
Not to mention the reaction could be shut down with the control rods. And if one plant was compromised, every single other one would be on TERRARISHTS alert.

I'm talking about the rods they keep in the water tanks. Literally all I'd have to do is get some explosives in there - and these things are almost literally guarded by rentacops - and boom, at least a million people dead.

I'd like to point out that the DoE has SWAT teams and a sniper school. Some rent-a-cops.

[Xantalos]

Note that my knowledge in this is taken from a document I read ~3 years ago, so I've no idea which plants I'm referring to.

[10ebbor10]

I'm talking about the rods they keep in the water tanks. Literally all I'd have to do is get some explosives in there - and these things are almost literally guarded by rentacops - and boom, at least a million people dead.

The fuel in every commercial reactor is never enriched enough to go critically boom. Fukushima had a triple meltdown and had 200 workers day and night operating within it. The amount of people killed would be about 0; unless of course the explosives themselves killed any unlucky workers.

So you'd have to target a military station, which is surprisingly enough, guarded by the military.

Fukushima killed a good 30 workers, maybe more. Standing in radioactive water tends to do that.

And Xantalos isn't talking about the power plants, he's talking about the spent fuel bassins. Ie, where they keep the long term radioactive waste 60 years before it goes under the ground.

But his plan gravely overstates the danger of those things. They don't produce nearly enough heat to melt, let alone vapourize themselves*. Cooling is possible, and the containers they're stored in can keep them cool/safe for some time, Even if the basin was destroyed. And if IRCC, most of these depots are guarded on site, ie, near the reactor. And the guards are allowed to kill.

Besides, we had accidents at spend fuel depots earlier. Nothing much happened.

*The only radioactive gasses will be vapourizing water, and then again, the danger from radiation is gravely overstated. Tsernobyl launched an entire reactor core in the air over Eastern Europe, total deaths, including cancers and such, will be less than 10 000 (WHO).

[Jopax]

I've read somewhere that while properly operated and stored those bars aren't a danger. The thing with those 32 storage sites however is that they've been operating over capacity for quite a while now, so you have a much bigger amount of dangerous material which will ignite if the water is drained, which can occur either by breaching the tank or crippling the cooling system so it vapourizes.

[gigaraptor487]

Coronavirus, just killed a guy nearby

[Xantalos]

I've read somewhere that while properly operated and stored those bars aren't a danger. The thing with those 32 storage sites however is that they've been operating over capacity for quite a while now, so you have a much bigger amount of dangerous material which will ignite if the water is drained, which can occur either by breaching the tank or crippling the cooling system so it vapourizes.

That was what I was missing!

[Slayerhero90]

Well I just read Bio Apocalypse at night time. Now I am hungry and somewhat bothered. They kinda overdid the blood, the narration was mediocre, the drawing was piss-poor, but worked decently enough for the organism, and the ending was on the happy side, so it wasn't very scary, but still... might actually dream tonight.

[SalmonGod]

Job interview in 7 hours.  So anxious.  I've never actually done one of these before.

[Tilla]

The passing of Ryan Davis has made me seriously start to worry about my weight. I'm a few years younger than Ryan was but I still feel I owe it to myself and to my family to get in better shape.

Knowing my luck I'll start jogging and get hit by a derailed train somehow.