"Is This the End of the World?"

[dreadgeek]

Originally Posted by Passionaria

I was talking to a Native American Man in Fiesta this afternoon, and he was saying how he was raised in Arkansas. He said the bird deaths reminded him of a day when the sky turned green from the Nuclear reactors near there which have had nuclear accidents in the past...... Made me wonder.

When was this nuclear accident? I tried several different Google searches to see if I could find a nuclear accident occurring in Arkansas and I was unable to find any mention of one. I went back and looked up every single nuclear incident--civilian and military--going back to the 40's and could only find *one* in Arkansas and that wasn't a reactor problem that was the explosion of a rocket with a nuclear warhead on it (the warhead didn't explode for reasons I won't belabor at this point but will if asked). So I then searched for green skies in Arkansas and couldn't find anything.

Can you reference an incident because, as far as I can tell, there have *been* no nuclear power plant accidents in Arkansas in the last 70 years and even if there had been, the skies would not turn green (This idea that you would glow green if exposed is a creation of science fiction. Any 'glow' you would see from a nuclear power plant would be *IN* the reactor and that would be what's called Cherenkov radiation but in order for that to happen, certain circumstances would have to obtain and those circumstances wouldn't be possible in open atmosphere).

Cheers
Aj