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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| YJCMTSU, Radioactive Soviet Lighthouses |
| 2009-01-09 |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #6 It's one of those WTF were the Soviets thinking moments. They placed thousands of pounds of extremely dangerous isotopes like Strontium-90 in each remote unguarded lighthouse just to light a lightbulb. A few pounds of this stuff is enough to contaminate any major city center and the Soviets left lying around, though remote, hundreds of thousands of pounds for the taking. |
| Posted by: Phulet Big Foot2825 2009-01-09 22:38 |
| #5 I think the article was incorrect; as several of the commenters pointed out, it was probably an RTG and not a reactor. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-01-09 21:31 |
| #4 I have to ask... how brightly do they glow in the dark? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2009-01-09 17:58 |
| #3 Actually, a small nuke reactor is an ingenious solution to the problem of providing electricity, heat, light and gamma rays to a remote location. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2009-01-09 15:45 |
| #2 So I wonder how long it took those looters to die? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-01-09 11:40 |
| #1 Amazing story. I hope the guy who took the pictures was wearing lead underwear. Al |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2009-01-09 11:35 |