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Quoted: *Meta This is about as close as we get. https://i.postimg.cc/cLppJcxV/PXL-20240122-223614863.jpg View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: The Amazon server hardware doesn't have any pretty blue LEDs on them? *Meta This is about as close as we get. https://i.postimg.cc/cLppJcxV/PXL-20240122-223614863.jpg Yeah you wouldn’t be getting pictures from the inside of an Amazon server room. Clean in/Clean out has been the law of the land for years now. |
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Quoted: Take a physics class at Missouri S&T and you can see one. I seent it. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Bucket list item to see in person. Doubt it'll ever happen. Take a physics class at Missouri S&T and you can see one. I seent it. "A bomb" used to be a class there . Wonder if it's still called that. I'd wondered if they still had their reactor, lots of university reactors were decommissioned after 9/11. |
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Quoted: I'd love to see Cherenkov radiation sometime in my life... View Quote Contact the nuclear engineering department at K-State. They have a TRIGA MkII. See if you can arrange a visit. You can look down on the core through 20' of water and get all the glow you want. Their TRIGA has pulse capability so you get a big flash too. |
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Quoted: It's outage season. I do miss this. So pretty and so deadly. https://i.postimg.cc/mk3Lh4J5/img-1-1714008687918.webp View Quote I don't miss the 6/7 12's but I know what you mean. It really is an amazing experience. The engineering and physics of the plants is truly a modern marvel. The planning and execution of a refueling and maintenance outage is beautifully choreographed chaos. |
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I toured the UT reactor on the J.J. Pickle campus again last fall, and that was the best view I’ve had of that lovely blue glow. It’s mesmerizing and frightening at the same time.
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I started my Nuclear career @ San Onofre Nuclear Gen Station back in 2008.
Worked with the Edison Dry Cask Storage Project and the Steam Generator replacement in both units. Spent time inside around the pools and the reactors during fuel movements and transfers. It was a great place to work. Folks were friendly, weather was great, and the surfing from Basilone rd up to San Clemente was world class. I had planned to do 22 years there and retire @ 62......until they made the decision to close the plant during June 2013. That's when my Nuke Career came to a tragic end. Definitely a once in a lifetime experience. . |
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Quoted: OP what does Heavy water taste like? I imagine https://www.mlive.com/resizer/EyhtuMYcKfFQl0kXouCzktkG8NU=/800x0/smart/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/advancelocal/5OCC4VXUX5EO5C6TCFOJUDZ6WY.jpg View Quote I don't know since we use light water. But I do know was navy nuclear coolant tastes like. |
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Quoted: *Meta This is about as close as we get. https://i.postimg.cc/cLppJcxV/PXL-20240122-223614863.jpg View Quote That set up is in Hartsville? |
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Hypnotic and it made me want to play with it. It's a beautiful thing that blue glow. No I dont miss it, well, not the glow the stress.
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Quoted: Gallatin. We don't actually handle consumer facing products like facebook (cat videos). We handle AI. We're also building a new liquid cooled GPU AI facility here. View Quote Wow. It's been a long time since I've been to the Gallatin area. Use to come through there on my way from northern middle Tenn by the Ky/Tn state line where I grew up. Gallatin was a fairly small city at that time. I bet it's one large city of Gallatin/Hendersonville/Nashville now. |
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Quoted: What if I identify as a nuclear engineer and employee? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Bucket list item to see in person. Doubt it'll ever happen. the guards with the automatic weapons won't be thrilled. Narrow minded assholes... What if I identify as a nuclear engineer and employee? What if I identify as a Rocket Surgeon & Astronaut? Bigger_Hammer |
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Quoted: *Meta This is about as close as we get. https://i.postimg.cc/cLppJcxV/PXL-20240122-223614863.jpg View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: The Amazon server hardware doesn't have any pretty blue LEDs on them? *Meta This is about as close as we get. https://i.postimg.cc/cLppJcxV/PXL-20240122-223614863.jpg Are any of those the Gavin Belson Signature Box? |
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Quoted: Are any of those the Gavin Belson Signature Box? https://preview.redd.it/hpxhsni767231.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=f3af3066979e605fd1ac4da04a1094ded614c646 View Quote |
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There is a reason I'm awake at 1am on a weeknight. Thankfully only doing half of a long outage on nights.
Day sleeping sucks, but night shift is much more chill. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Are any of those the Gavin Belson Signature Box? https://preview.redd.it/hpxhsni767231.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=f3af3066979e605fd1ac4da04a1094ded614c646 Silicon Valley dick jerk algorithm |
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Our reactor guy assured us that if someone went for a swim, alarms would start sounding in less than 30 seconds, due to the amount of contamination coming off the swimmer that would foul the water. |
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Quoted: What if I identify as a nuclear engineer and employee? View Quote You always remember your first nuke plant refuel/turnaround. Mine was RF#14 at Calloway (sp?) in bum fuck Missouri in 2005. If I am remembering correctly, there were iris scanners, right before something that resembled an old school telephone booth. But with two doors. Your eyes would get scanned, and then you go into the booth. I guess if your iris scans didn’t match what was in file then the exit door to the booth wouldn’t open. Then the Wackenhut security guards would probably meet you at your booth. Plus beforehand there is the background check and psych eval. That was the first and only time I have taken the full Minnesota Multi-Phasic Personality Inventory. |
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TVA has a nuke plant near me they haven't even started up yet.
It was for sale then someone tried buying it but the deal fell through. Absolute shame the hate nuclear power gets. It's truly emission free. I did CO-OP work in a gas fired power plant when I was in college for Mechanical Engineering. I've always liked nuclear power. The plant I worked at was doing a controls upgrade of the plant taking the control room from looking like the Chernobyl power station to 2 computer monitors for each generator. Now I do HVAC controls |
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Quoted: It's outage season. I do miss this. So pretty and so deadly. https://i.postimg.cc/mk3Lh4J5/img-1-1714008687918.webp View Quote As soon as I saw the photo I knew what I was looking at. Having spent six years designing plants like this some things you never forget. |
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After my first outage being the refueling SRO on the bridge, I had dreams with that blue glow in them. That level of hyper-focus to ensure the fuel is going in the right place for two hours at a time will do things to your mind. I’ve always wondered how surgeons manage to do 8 hour procedures???
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@JustinU235
pardon my ignorance, is the blue light generating stick the actual uranium rod? or is that the control rod? Its been a while since I had my "build a nuclear reactor at home" series from Time life books... |
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Quoted: I don't know since we use light water. But I do know was navy nuclear coolant tastes like. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: OP what does Heavy water taste like? I imagine https://www.mlive.com/resizer/EyhtuMYcKfFQl0kXouCzktkG8NU=/800x0/smart/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/advancelocal/5OCC4VXUX5EO5C6TCFOJUDZ6WY.jpg I don't know since we use light water. But I do know was navy nuclear coolant tastes like. Attached File |
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Got to see that at the UF campus nuke plant. It was very beautiful.
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Cherenkov radiation (/t r k f/[1]) (also known as erenkov or Cerenkov radiation[2]) is electromagnetic radiation emitted when a charged particle (such as an electron) passes through a dielectric medium (such as distilled water) at a speed greater than the phase velocity (speed of propagation of a wavefront in a medium) of light in that medium.[3] A classic example of Cherenkov radiation is the characteristic blue glow of an underwater nuclear reactor. Its cause is similar to the cause of a sonic boom, the sharp sound heard when faster-than-sound movement occurs. The phenomenon is named after Soviet physicist Pavel Cherenkov. |
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Quoted: https://cdn3.iconfinder.com/data/icons/letters-and-numbers-1/32/letter_Y_blue-512.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Why is blue Cherenkov radiation (/t r k f/[1]) (also known as erenkov or Cerenkov radiation[2]) is electromagnetic radiation emitted when a charged particle (such as an electron) passes through a dielectric medium (such as distilled water) at a speed greater than the phase velocity (speed of propagation of a wavefront in a medium) of light in that medium.[3] A classic example of Cherenkov radiation is the characteristic blue glow of an underwater nuclear reactor. Its cause is similar to the cause of a sonic boom, the sharp sound heard when faster-than-sound movement occurs. The phenomenon is named after Soviet physicist Pavel Cherenkov. “Due to the high energies at play during Cherenkov radiation, the photons travel as waves that have high frequencies and short wavelengths, which are typical of violet and blue colours. The higher the frequencies and the shorter the wavelengths are, the bluer or more violet the light appears to the human eye.” Jul 28, 2022 What is Cherenkov Radiation? | IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency https://www.iaea.org › newscenter › news › w |
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Quoted: OP what does Heavy water taste like? I imagine https://www.mlive.com/resizer/EyhtuMYcKfFQl0kXouCzktkG8NU=/800x0/smart/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/advancelocal/5OCC4VXUX5EO5C6TCFOJUDZ6WY.jpg View Quote You can try it yourself. |
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