Leibstadt Nuclear Power Plant
Leibstadt Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant on the Rhine in northern Switzerland. It turns up in What if you swam in a nuclear storage pool? (xkcd’s What If?): It supplies the real incident that shows spent fuel pools are swimmable but dangerous, the article’s evidence for the safe-except-at-the-bottom answer.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| What if you swam in a nuclear storage pool? | xkcd’s What If? | turning point | On August 31st, 2010 a diver servicing the spent fuel pool here found a length of tubing on the pool floor and put it in his tool basket,… |
What if you swam in a nuclear storage pool? — xkcd’s What If? (2024)
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spent fuel pool at the Leibstadt nuclear reactor
- Role: turning point
- In the video: On August 31st, 2010 a diver servicing the spent fuel pool here found a length of tubing on the pool floor and put it in his tool basket, and radiation alarms went off when it was lifted. The tubing had broken off in 2006 and sat unnoticed for four years; the diver’s hand took a heavy dose while the water shielded the rest of him.
- Why it matters: It supplies the real incident that shows spent fuel pools are swimmable but dangerous, the article’s evidence for the safe-except-at-the-bottom answer. Any facility with a fuel pool could stand in, but this is a documented case.