Reply To: The Random Post Thread (Game Potential)
Percephene: I don’t think these particles are going to hit any uranium rods or anything (I’m no nuclear physicist, but I believe this is the kind of thing that actually gives extra energy and might go ka-boom when you hit it with speeding particles. To split more stable atoms, as will be done to produce protons to send around the LHC, you have to put in more energy than you get out) They’ll make whatever they do hit radioactive, and it would not be a very good idea to stand in the way of the beam, but the whole thing is about 100m underground so no noticable radiation will make it near anyone who is not carrying a dosimeter. In fact, according to this page, the additional radiation dose from CERN is also lower than natural differences between different areas, so that moving to another municipality could raise your annual radiation dose to much more than living near CERN.
ETA: Oh, another WTF reader. 🙂