If Sellafield blows, what will you do?

Dr Bolouswki · 16-09-2003 09:59PM #1

If Al Queda decide to hit hit sellafield with anything bigger than a Lear jet, it would most likely spell the end of the eastern seaboard of ireland being anything approaching inhabitable for a very long time. The goverments idea to give us an iodine tablet before we head off to work has a fatal flaw, in that it's what the ancient greeks referred to as 'total 6ollox'...

What's your plan if this horrific event actually happens?

Personally, I've got none. I've been thinking emergency codes sorted with my whole family for quick texting (the phone network would collapse pretty quick if the event happened due to over usage) and we are all straight to Rosslare to boat it to France... (airports would most likely be closed)

Hardly fool proof... any one any ideas? Anyone know anything about the likely effects of Sellafield being hit?

Pepe LeFrits · 16-09-2003 10:01PM

drive to my dads yacht and sail to france.

TomTom · 16-09-2003 10:05PM

start swimming the atlantic

Tusky · 16-09-2003 10:12PM

**** furiously....and if that fails...furiously ****

Crucifix · 16-09-2003 10:20PM

Say "What the fu-", then die.

Creature · 16-09-2003 10:29PM

Shake my fist in the general direction of the terrorists.

Lump · 16-09-2003 10:30PM

Be dead before I have time to think twice.... if it happens well such is life or death..... Oh I live twelve miles from sellafield during college months. If I'm in Ireland, I'll actually have time to think about death and I'm sure that'd scare the shít out of me. Fast and pain less.... I'm sure I'd be in the fallout zone that would kill me fairly quickly.

John

solice · 16-09-2003 10:30PM

ok, go to dublin, knock on berties door and tell him. "you complete ****** wtf were u thinking. u give me iodine tablets. oh yeah thats fan fcuking tastic that is" and then knock him one

Dooom · 16-09-2003 10:33PM

laugh loudly, sit in a deckchair and smoke a bunch of cigarettes

rymus · 16-09-2003 10:36PM

...probably just melt or explode or whatever people do when they get a lethal dose of radiation. No grand plans... I'll just die with the rest of the country.

xx · 16-09-2003 10:41PM

I'll have a lot of mixed feelings. For one, over 50% of the scumbag population of Ireland will be wiped out

But at the same time, about 50% of all the hot women in ireland will be toast too

It will, however, prove that FF are the worst bunch of kunts to have in the Dail at a time of crisis. Jaysus, I'd love to knock that Bertie lad one, and after that give Noel Dempsey the hammering of his life. But alas, if I'm in dublin at the time it happens, I'd be toast before I could complete that thought.
If I'm home in meath though, I'll join spike on a deckchair and smoke some fatties and grow a third arm in peace.

passive · 16-09-2003 10:42PM

pray my last few hours away to ensure a good seat in heaven...

i'm sure god would ignore the rest of my life and my outspoken atheism :rolleyes:

...or possibly just eat my entire familys supply of iodine tablets, thus making me completely immune to all types of radiation....

solice · 16-09-2003 10:43PM

im very upset by all this actually. when the iodine tablets came to the house here we only got five packets. there is six in the family. when i read the leaflet i discovered that i was the one that didnt get them, why, i was not on the voters register. i was not 18.
that would have been all fine and bloody dandy if i was 5 and i could take half tablets from other members in the family but i was 17. i was 18 a month later. wtf is that about. i still havent got my tablets.

and whats the whole thing about only saving those that can vote. i wouldnt vote for bertie now but if sellafield blew up i def wouldnt vote for him

deecom · 16-09-2003 10:50PM

now lets be honest, iodine tablets are the least of your worries in a mass nuclear fallout. best your going to do is choke on them!

solice · 16-09-2003 10:56PM

its the principle of the matter. once again that govt totally fcuked up. what they get away with is ridiculous

Sparks · 16-09-2003 10:58PM

There would be ample time to pack everything up and drive west of the wicklow hills before the environment got dangerous. The problem would be the way property prices would plummet in the pale and spike in the west. So it'd be more a medium-to-long-term problem, rather than a bright flash of light and a sudden end to all your troubles.

Mind you, the odds of Sellafield being targeted are not high, realistically speaking. There are far more "interesting" targets for your average al quaeda terrorist in both Ireland and the UK, and none of them would be nuclear in nature.

Repli · 16-09-2003 11:00PM

I dunno what id to ***.. we watched a video in physics in 6th year on what to do if it happened.. apparently a lot of people in the UK have shelters built.. there was some other stuff i vaguely remember.. painting your windows black..

WHY DIDNT I LISTEN IN PHYSICS CLASS

solice · 16-09-2003 11:13PM

i should have listened in bio and chem. dam govt not giving me iodine, i am so angry now

MrPinK · 16-09-2003 11:14PM

Point and say "we told you so"

solice · 16-09-2003 11:19PM

they never listen to us, ever

Lemming · 16-09-2003 11:25PM

the degree of "how f*cked are we??!!" goes as follows in the event of some nut doing something nasty to Sellafield

hitting a low-grade plutonium storage "shed" will knock out a nice area reaching down as far as Dundalk (or was it Drogheda - can't rightly recall).

hitting a medimu-grade plutonium storage shed would result in the entire of Ireland, the UK, and part of the western seaboard of mainland Europe glowing green after the resultant blast has crushed and/or incinerated everything.

hitting a high-grade plutonium storage shed (ie. weapons grade material) would result in Western Europe being wiped off the face of the earth

or something to that effect.

In any case, we're boned.

Mossy Monk · 16-09-2003 11:56PM

i would probably be asleep and wouldnt notice anything until i got to St. Peter at the gates

AL][EN · 17-09-2003 12:00AM

Pretty much what lemming says if they hit a high-grade plutonium storage or a medium-grade plutonium storage shed were pretty buggered we dont have to worry as none of us will survive!

there isnt really anything anyone can do as FF idea of nuclear prevention is a joke, in fact the whole damn gov is a joke if you ask me (but that doesnt belong here) as for what id do well I'd probably drive to dublin (knowing that its certian death) and spend the last remaining hours of my life with the woman im in mad about (aaawww isnt that sickenly cute)

monument · 17-09-2003 12:42AM

Well what was it… duck and cover?

I’d go mad and steal everyone’s iodine prophylaxis tablets (or Potassium Iodate Tablets) for no real reason.

shinobi · 17-09-2003 01:37AM

Originally posted by Tusky
**** furiously....and if that fails...furiously ****

LOL
also drink lots of alcohol.:D

joseph brand · 17-09-2003 01:42AM

I'd have a pretty good excuse not to go to work.

I've always wanted to do my mates ma, damn she is hot and has been since first I saw her(kinda Spanish looks).

Make good use of the bedlem, i.e looting, raping and pillaging, he he he he. :cool:

It's not all bad, might find myself an abandoned radioactive porsche 911 in Blackrock or thereabouts, grow another head and talk to myself en route to see my mates Ma.:D

Bring it on Osama.

neGev · 17-09-2003 02:32AM

I'd run to the nearest phonebox to change into my Superman costume to save the worl.....
I've said too much.

stormkeeper · 17-09-2003 04:46AM

Originally posted by passive
pray my last few hours away to ensure a good seat in heaven...

i'm sure god would ignore the rest of my life and my outspoken atheism :rolleyes:

...or possibly just eat my entire familys supply of iodine tablets, thus making me completely immune to all types of radiation....

Only problem there is you'd be impotent as ^&%!... I seriously doubt that someone taking that amount of iodine could be that immune... If the radiation doesn't do something, I'd say the iodine will, though I dunno what.

joseph brand · 17-09-2003 04:53AM

I think I heard Ray Darcy on the Radio the other day(Today FM).

He's 'radio-active'.

... . . . . . . . . . . .what have I said. . . .oh no!!

stormkeeper · 17-09-2003 05:05AM

According to my friend over here in The Netherlands (aka Holland, actually... 'Tis the region I'm in anyway), there's a massive oil refinery here, and there also are a few nuke generators to the south of here, so if the refinery goes boom (It's as big as the town I'm staying in, Zoetermeer), we're doomed... So if something is hit, lets hope it won't hit Rotterdam, or more than just west Europe will be gone... Some of East and South Europe too, via a nuke reactor chain reaction.... I think there are nuke reactors in France too, if I'm not mistaken. So anything that reaches either Rotterdam Oil refinery, or another high explosive source, we're pretty much screwed

Wook · 17-09-2003 07:44AM

at least it's cheap energy

If Sellafield blows, what will you do?

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