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What a bullshit article - very misleading. This sentence is outright false:

a worker slipped into what is essentially a pool of uranium

They use water in those pools because it's very effective for cool, and also super good at shielding the radiation. The pools are like 30' deep, and you only need like 6' of water to block basically all the radiation. If the guy fell in and was under water near the surface, he was probably getting less radiation exposure than if he had just been standing outside in the sun. He "somehow survived" because he wasn't in any danger.

Reactor pools are surprisingly safe. Water acts as a strong insulator for radiation, and you have to dive down pretty deep to reach dangerous levels of radiation. It's not a good idea to jump in, but people do fall into the pools and usually survive.

I know nothing about this, but it seems like there should be a way to isolate the pool, by a cover, or a wall or fence, that would make it impossible to accidentally fall in. And, if a worker needs to reach down to the pool for some reason, they could be tied off. Is there some reason it needs to be open, making this possible?