Makes you wonder...

Originally Posted by skylinejackjr

Bananas? Really?

Yes they really are radioactive along with MANY of your other foods, trash can and even your own body MAKES radiation to some point! So when people want to freak out when they want to build a nuke power plant...they don't understand the amount of radiation is LOWER than what the background radiation is, this being said nuke plants are VERY safe to live by unless something happens but even then trust me you are more than safe.

I can not go into to much details on nuclear power plants and how they are built and how they work but what I can tell you is this.

The power plant is build 3 times. In short this means that...well...lets make this simple

You have one light bulb with one wire.

the power plant will have 3 light bulbs and each light bulb will have 3 wires. Its build on a redundant system for safety so if any one item failed...they have 2 more of said item...and 2 more power lines going to it. So, all pumps..they have three of them on three power lines are not connected together. I hope ya'll understand because its hard to explain something short...that you just have so much info on.