I don’t think so… I think with the brain destroyed the meat, as Zen stated after being cooked well done, should be edible. Its like salmonella in chicken. Its definitely there in almost all cases until you cook it.
Test it on the guy nobody likes in the place first.
A nuke plants fuel can last considerably longer if you reduce the power output. Considerably longer than the equipment itself could go before a malfunction serious enough to take the thing down.
Now, on my ship, the Enterprise… If Zombie Apocalypse! had ocurred while I was there, and our sole purpose became generating power with zero additional support from elsewhere… A few years, likely, by keeping only one plant up, and scavenging the rest for parts. Between the excessive amount of spare parts due to having 8 identical reactors, and 4 identical engine rooms(plus the massive amounts of equipment elsewhere on the ship that could be scavenged…)… Yeah… A few years I would think, maybe as much as 20 if we babied the hell out of it.
I’m just answerin’ the OP’s question. If you think it’s silly, take it up with him. He’s the one who barricaded himself in the basement, not me.
the zombies do have down time, yes? so food runs and the ilk could be done during the zdt.
if you are going to barricade yourself in a basement, try to pick the basement of a military or “hide the important people” installations. they will have all sorts of nummy things, back up power supplies, and creature comforts. (hope the zombies forget about the installations.)
Cool. I suspect, though, that modern aircraft carriers wouldn’t last as long - they don’t have as many reactors, do they? Thus, they’d have fewer spare parts available.
ETA: My inner Trekkie/Battlestar Galactica fan is greatly amused at the idea of the aging Enterprise, rather than our newest and sleekest carriers, becoming the Last, Best Hope of Mankind in the event of zombie apocalypse.
Yep. That’s the first thing I thought of when I saw this question.
IIRC, Niven had the nuke plant operators (who were barricaded inside the just-constructed plant, and sending power OUT to nobody … they were just using it themselves, on-site) claim they could keep the thing running for 50 years.
I asked you not to wake the zombies. Now our grid’s gonna get eaten.
Doesn’t the power produced have to match the demand? I read an article about electric grids recently and it said that every time you flip on a light, that electricity was produced at a power plant just a second before. It said the power companies have to constantly monitor the demand and call the plants to tell them to make more or less. Would something bad happen if the plant operators set the power output to an average day then everyone died and the grid was only consuming 1% of that power being generated?
But they could start eating the lazy, unproductive employees, right?
At least in the case of World War Z and Zombie Survival Guide, both by Max Brooks’, this is not the case. Eating zombie flesh will not give you the zombie virus but it is invariable toxic and fatal to any creature that might eat it. Depending on who else is writing the story then YMMV.
But you’re in a nuclear power plant. Just expose it to the core for a couple minutes and all the zombie-viruses will be dead dead dead (er).
Even if the zombie meat isn’t infected with some sort of virus, don’t forget that it is rotting. It’s rotting, rancid, bacteria-riddled grossness. I wouldn’t put that in my mouth.
Better to feast on the very recently deceased co-workers. Emphasis on very recently deceased.
I don’t think that the hypothetical makes sense unless you take human nature into consideration. It seems HIGHLY unlikely that the employees would stick around doing their jobs. They’d want to get out and find their families. The only people I could see staffing under such circumstances would be people who either had no family left (not enough of those), or who had already ascertained that their family was dead.
Didn’t some family do this in the basement in a very informative movie?
Ginnea in Rochester NY would be a good possibilty for it, single unit and they have a fuel rod pool on site, so all you would need to do is figure out how to get rid of the spent fuel rods, though apparently the chinese are working on using the spent rods to further use instead of warehousing them in a salt mine somewhere in outer mongolia or wherever.
And the fuel pool is such a pretty glowing blue… very romantic :eek:
