Well, the Portuguese word for “garlic” is “o alho”, Italian “l’aglio”, and French “l’ail” (all a bit different from the Spanish “el ajo”)… so the root word for that bulb must be from there.
The trouble with accidents involving fissionable material is that it takes so darn long for the danger to subside. For Plutonium 239, for example, about 250,000 years, many times longer than the ascendant human being has existed on the planet.
According to the below site, the Chernobyl 4 reactor contained about 190 metric tons of uranium dioxide fuel and fission products. An estimated 13 to 30 percent of this escaped into the atmosphere. If it was at 30 percent that would be 57 metric tons. If it was at the lowest estimate it would equal 24.7 metric tons. Not all of the released weight was from the uranium. Some of the release was other fission products besides uranium dioxide. Also, uranium dioxide is not pure uranium. It contains 2 oxygen atoms for every uranium atom. Uranium atoms do weigh much more than oxygen atoms but the oxygen contributed to some of the released weight.
the frog/spider thing sounds like an example of symbiosis, we see that happen quite often in nature, but it’s never really called a pet type relationship.
Uranium fallout was not the problem and was not even listed in most of the fallout lists. The soviet RBMK reactor type used natural uranium, not enriched one. 57 tons is about the amount of uranium which you’ll find in any area of 45 square miles in the upper 10 inches of earth almost everywhere on the planet. The problematic isotopes with the highest radioactivity were of different elements. Short-term, Xenon133 had the highest activity of about 6500 PBq, followed by Iod131, Iod133 and Tellur132. Other isotopes were almost neglectable. As these isotopes have short half-life periods of only a few days, this picture was changing soon. Longest half-lifes have the various Plutonium-isotopes, the activity of which therefore was and is comparatively low. Today, even in the closed area around the reactor, the natural activity is mostly higher than that of the fallout from the 1986 disaster, except for some spots.
Templo S.U.D. over 5 years ago
Well, the Portuguese word for “garlic” is “o alho”, Italian “l’aglio”, and French “l’ail” (all a bit different from the Spanish “el ajo”)… so the root word for that bulb must be from there.
saintian over 5 years ago
The genus of garlic is allium.
Gent over 5 years ago
This should be a better tale than the scorpion and the frog!
khmo over 5 years ago
Two out of three absolutely incorrect.
The Pro from Dover over 5 years ago
Were?
J Short over 5 years ago
Frog for spiders is the equivalent of a pit bull for humans.
russef over 5 years ago
Thank God for Alliumphobia!! I haven’t been bitten yet!!
Huckleberry Hiroshima over 5 years ago
Wow. I did not know that about the uranium.
Radish... over 5 years ago
The Russians blew up an atomic rocket engine just the other day.
jvn over 5 years ago
“Say hello to my little friend!” said the spider to the fly.
Charlie Fogwhistle over 5 years ago
The trouble with accidents involving fissionable material is that it takes so darn long for the danger to subside. For Plutonium 239, for example, about 250,000 years, many times longer than the ascendant human being has existed on the planet.
PaleoCon over 5 years ago
Scordophobia would actually be more accurate for the fear of garlic.
pearlsbs over 5 years ago
According to the below site, the Chernobyl 4 reactor contained about 190 metric tons of uranium dioxide fuel and fission products. An estimated 13 to 30 percent of this escaped into the atmosphere. If it was at 30 percent that would be 57 metric tons. If it was at the lowest estimate it would equal 24.7 metric tons. Not all of the released weight was from the uranium. Some of the release was other fission products besides uranium dioxide. Also, uranium dioxide is not pure uranium. It contains 2 oxygen atoms for every uranium atom. Uranium atoms do weigh much more than oxygen atoms but the oxygen contributed to some of the released weight.
https://www.nei.org/resources/fact-sheets/chernobyl-accident-and-its-consequences
craigwestlake over 5 years ago
Alliumphobia is non-existent in Italy and Greece…
yangeldf over 5 years ago
the frog/spider thing sounds like an example of symbiosis, we see that happen quite often in nature, but it’s never really called a pet type relationship.
Spock over 5 years ago
Uranium fallout was not the problem and was not even listed in most of the fallout lists. The soviet RBMK reactor type used natural uranium, not enriched one. 57 tons is about the amount of uranium which you’ll find in any area of 45 square miles in the upper 10 inches of earth almost everywhere on the planet. The problematic isotopes with the highest radioactivity were of different elements. Short-term, Xenon133 had the highest activity of about 6500 PBq, followed by Iod131, Iod133 and Tellur132. Other isotopes were almost neglectable. As these isotopes have short half-life periods of only a few days, this picture was changing soon. Longest half-lifes have the various Plutonium-isotopes, the activity of which therefore was and is comparatively low. Today, even in the closed area around the reactor, the natural activity is mostly higher than that of the fallout from the 1986 disaster, except for some spots.