What would it feel like to step inside of a nuclear reactor unprotected?

Hudson

Say you stepped inside of a nuclear reactor...without ANY protection...with the addition of there were gamma rays mention there What would it cense like? What would you see? Other than mammal penetrated by gamma rays and procurement holes in your skull....just ignore that percentage



Troy

You would fry, pretty much instantly. The amount of energy released is sufficient to rapidly raise the temperature of water by several hundred degrees. This water remains liquid, because it is highly pressurized until it reaches the turbines, where it is allowed to turn to steam to drive the turbines. The water in your body, however, is not pressurized, and will literally boil away in a fairly short time. As for what you would see, if you could remain conscious long enough, for the most part, none of the energy released is in the form of photons, so you wouldn't see any glowing or whatever. But you would see a kind of haze of "sparks" filling your entire field of vision as gamma rays strike (and damage) your retinas. These are not physical sparks; if someone was looking through a window that blocks gamma rays, they wouldn't see them. Rather, they are the brain's way of processing the last firing of visual neurons as they die. In fact, every once in a while you can just such a "spark" by closing your eyes in a dark room. These are caused by cosmic rays striking the retina. It's rare, but it happens.