Negative. Pure water does not become radioactive.
Impurities in water become radioactive. I find it easy to believe that 23rd century water purification technology is advanced enough to eliminate this issue.
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Negative. Pure water does not become radioactive.
Impurities in water become radioactive. I find it easy to believe that 23rd century water purification technology is advanced enough to eliminate this issue.
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So, what is it the Enterprise-D has in her huge-ass Deuterium-tanks then?
I'm assuming that running through tubes with engineers taking a swim would add a certain level of impurities
. Seriously, it would have to pick up some contamination in the system wouldn't it?I don't know, I'm not an engineer
I'm assuming that running through tubes with engineers taking a swim would add a certain level of impurities
So? Are you saying that the impurities that Scotty brought with him were radiated on the spot so much that it would harm him? If so, then Scotty himself would have had much worse to worry about than the impurities he brought with himself, he'd have all that radiation to worry about.
I'm assuming that running through tubes with engineers taking a swim would add a certain level of impurities
So? Are you saying that the impurities that Scotty brought with him were radiated on the spot so much that it would harm him? If so, then Scotty himself would have had much worse to worry about than the impurities he brought with himself, he'd have all that radiation to worry about.
The Scotty part was A JOKE! The actual picking up impurities part would be from the cooling system itself.
I'm assuming that running through tubes with engineers taking a swim would add a certain level of impurities
So? Are you saying that the impurities that Scotty brought with him were radiated on the spot so much that it would harm him? If so, then Scotty himself would have had much worse to worry about than the impurities he brought with himself, he'd have all that radiation to worry about.
The Scotty part was A JOKE! The actual picking up impurities part would be from the cooling system itself.
As I said, I would have to assume that 23rd century water purification would be better than ours. I assume filtration and purification would be constantly performed in the coolant loop itself, just like modern engineering plants have it.
I don't know. I can't imagine that you could completely eliminate radiation contamination of the water. But would they really be using water to cool a warp drive system? Wouldn't magnetic containment eliminate the need?
You don't have to completely eliminate it. You get radiation right now where you sit, but you're in no danger.
The point is basically moot anyway since Scotty wasn't in a "coolant" pipe, he was in an "Inert Reactant" pipe.
Who knows? We've never made one.
Regardless of anything else, a transparent water tube is a dramatic device and not a real world one.
Not necessarily.
We have plenty of stretches of clear piping here where I work simply so we can check for visual changes in the fluid quality.
In the 23rd Century, they have transparent aluminum, ya know.
We have plenty of stretches of clear piping here where I work simply so we can check for visual changes in the fluid quality.
In the 23rd Century, they have transparent aluminum, ya know.
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