What Happens If You Swim in a Spent Fuel Pool?

xkcd's What If? · Explainer · 4 min · 2024 · YouTube title: What if you swam in a nuclear storage pool?

Why it's here

Recommended whenever a thread asks how dangerous it is to fall into a reactor or fuel pool.

What it covers

Randall Munroe of xkcd answers what would happen if you swam in a spent nuclear fuel pool, and how much radiation you would receive at the surface versus at depth.