One day into this thing, and already we’ve got a turkey.
Not literally a turkey, mind you. I could get a good 500 words out of a turkey, easy.
No, today we’ll be discussing the Oskarshamn Nuclear Power Plant, located in scenic Sweden.
I assumed Sweden was mostly meatballs and stories about sexually abused computer hackers, but in this, as in so many other things, I was wrong.
Come to think of it, since I’m notoriously bad at geography (well, notoriously in the sense that I’m wholly ignorant of other countries and have an ego large enough to claim that said ignorance is one of the things I’m most known for), it occurs to me that other countries probably also have nuclear power. I’m not sure how to feel about this, because I don’t know anything about nuclear power. Except I think maybe it involves splitting atoms, and that if you’re five years old and you watch Godzilla, you’ll just assume it’s a documentary.
So. Okarshman, then. It’s one of three nuclear power plants in Sweden, and contains Clab, the site where spent nuclear fuel is temporarily stored. Now this is interesting to me, because it never occurred to me that spent nuclear fuel needs to be stored. That’s weird to me.
Thinking of other sources of power, it’s not like when your car uses all of its gas, you then have to put that gas somewhere else for proper disposal. Something about that feels oddly… inefficient.
Another fun fact is that the plant had to be temporarily shut down because a welder came in with some nail polish. Granted, it was a mildly explosive substance crafted from nail polish, but it’s way more interesting to tell the story my way.
Also: you can make mild explosives from nail polish? Holy shit, this experiment might just be paying dividends after all!
At any rate I should probably do more research into this whole “nuclear power” thing, especially if I’m going to talk about it.
On the other hand, the internet doesn’t seem to fault you for ignorance, so the hell with it…
Pryorball. 