{"id":2229,"date":"2011-04-01T14:00:54","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/?p=2229"},"modified":"2013-03-01T00:44:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T22:44:31","slug":"a-litte-riddle-solve-it-and-win-pins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/01\/a-litte-riddle-solve-it-and-win-pins\/","title":{"rendered":"A litte riddle&#8230; solve it and win pins."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is not so much an April Fools joke as it is a little riddle. It connects to a current event&#8230; and to things that happened in the last century. And of course it has something to do with nuclear power.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2249\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2249\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2249\" title=\"What are these equations?\" src=\"http:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/riddle1.png\" alt=\"What are these equations?\" width=\"400\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/riddle1.png 400w, https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/riddle1-150x107.png 150w, https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/riddle1-300x214.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2249\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">What are these equations?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is a comparison between two estimated values&#8230; what are they?<\/p>\n<p>Update: we have a winner! Tony scored a perfect bullseye. I&#8217;m quoting him here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u2018a\u2019 is the number of iodine atoms that would fill the known universe, if the iodine were at \u2018normal\u2019 temperature\/pressure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">the second number is the number of radioactive iodine atoms you would have needed, when Chernobyl exploded, in order to have one radioactive iodine atom left today.<\/p>\n<p>An added trivia is that the estimated number of atoms in the known universe is approximately 10^80.<\/p>\n<p>The upshot of all this is this: <strong>there is not a single atom of Iodine-131 released by Chernobyl in existence today<\/strong>. The last atom decayed in no more than 4 years after the accident.<\/p>\n<p>\/Michael<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not so much an April Fools joke as it is a little riddle. It connects to a current event&#8230; and to things that&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/01\/a-litte-riddle-solve-it-and-win-pins\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A litte riddle&#8230; solve it and win pins.<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,57,297],"tags":[490,484,690,491,434,4,489,435],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2229"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7206,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions\/7206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}