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MO, USA
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Posted: 4/24/2024 10:20:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TLF: 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. |
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USA
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Posted: 4/24/2024 10:22:29 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JustinU235: *Meta This is about as close as we get. https://i.postimg.cc/cLppJcxV/PXL-20240122-223614863.jpg Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JustinU235: Originally Posted By klinc: 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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Posted: 4/24/2024 10:22:44 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Matthew_Q: I'd love to see Cherenkov radiation sometime in my life... It's coherent light, like a laser, but diffuse incandescence. It has a very unique look that cannot be adequately expressed in photography. |
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Posted: 4/24/2024 10:23:47 PM EDT
[Last Edit: JustinU235]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By usptac: 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. Yeah they handle .gov traffic. We handle cat videos. 
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Posted: 4/24/2024 10:26:01 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Gamma762]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By InDaRed2: Take a physics class at Missouri S&T and you can see one. I seent it. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By InDaRed2: Originally Posted By TLF: 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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Posted: 4/24/2024 10:32:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Matthew_Q: I'd love to see Cherenkov radiation sometime in my life... 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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GA, USA
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Posted: 4/24/2024 10:35:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JustinU235: The actual server guys are sketch as hell. I don't turn my back on them. Figured your sys admins would be mostly dot Indians, the telco guys have seen and done ‘things.’ |
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Posted: 4/24/2024 10:56:18 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By JustinU235: It's outage season. I do miss this. So pretty and so deadly. https://i.postimg.cc/mk3Lh4J5/img-1-1714008687918.webp 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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Posted: 4/24/2024 11:29:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Matthew_Q: I'd love to see Cherenkov radiation sometime in my life... Got tape? |
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WA, USA
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Posted: 4/24/2024 11:36:19 PM EDT
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Ah, the forbidden swimming pool.
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Posted: 4/24/2024 11:55:06 PM EDT
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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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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:02:25 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JLPettimoreIII: What does the dosimeter say? LOL.. I wore one of those around my neck for a lot of years...turned them in for a scan every so often. Was never told I ever exceeded the recommended dose so I guess I'm good. I'm good, right? |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:25:01 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JLPettimoreIII: It's not three roentgen. It's fifteen thousand. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JLPettimoreIII: Originally Posted By cyclone: Not good, not terrible It's not three roentgen. It's fifteen thousand. We need a new phone |
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ID, USA
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:32:12 AM EDT
[Last Edit: IdahoPCCinc]
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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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WA, USA
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:39:09 AM EDT
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OP what does Heavy water taste like? I imagine
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:43:35 AM EDT
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:44:18 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 21usernamechecksout: 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.
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:45:13 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JustinU235: *Meta This is about as close as we get. https://i.postimg.cc/cLppJcxV/PXL-20240122-223614863.jpg That set up is in Hartsville? |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:47:32 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Matthew_Q: I'd love to see Cherenkov radiation sometime in my life... |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:47:57 AM EDT
[Last Edit: JustinU235]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 50cal: That set up is in Hartsville? 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. |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:49:42 AM EDT
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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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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:50:49 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JustinU235: 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. 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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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:55:31 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TLF: What if I identify as a nuclear engineer and employee? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TLF: Originally Posted By MethaneMover: Originally Posted By TLF: Originally Posted By JLPettimoreIII: Originally Posted By TLF: 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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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:58:58 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JustinU235: *Meta This is about as close as we get. https://i.postimg.cc/cLppJcxV/PXL-20240122-223614863.jpg Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JustinU235: Originally Posted By klinc: 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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Posted: 4/25/2024 1:03:26 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SparticleBrane: Are any of those the Gavin Belson Signature Box? https://preview.redd.it/hpxhsni767231.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=f3af3066979e605fd1ac4da04a1094ded614c646  |
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VA, USA
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Posted: 4/25/2024 1:09:58 AM EDT
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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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WA, USA
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Posted: 4/25/2024 1:18:05 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JustinU235: Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JustinU235: Originally Posted By SparticleBrane: 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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Posted: 4/25/2024 1:22:33 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOur 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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Posted: 4/25/2024 1:23:26 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryI love that show.
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Posted: 4/25/2024 1:28:25 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TLF: What if I identify as a nuclear engineer and employee? 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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AL, USA
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Posted: 4/25/2024 1:41:24 AM EDT
[Last Edit: memsu]
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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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Posted: 4/25/2024 6:41:26 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JustinU235: Beaver Valley Power station unit 1 refueling outage. They're removing the core for maintenance and refueling. Awesome. Thanks |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 7:06:35 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JLPettimoreIII: It's not three roentgen. It's fifteen thousand. |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 7:08:54 AM EDT
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Originally Posted By JustinU235: It's outage season. I do miss this. So pretty and so deadly. https://i.postimg.cc/mk3Lh4J5/img-1-1714008687918.webp 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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Posted: 4/25/2024 7:25:21 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JLPettimoreIII: Jayne Cobb: You made that sound kinda ominous. (w,stte) |
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GA, USA
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Posted: 4/25/2024 9:23:55 AM EDT
[Last Edit: pzilla]
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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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Posted: 4/25/2024 9:44:22 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JustinU235: Beaver Valley Power station unit 1 refueling outage. They're removing the core for maintenance and refueling. Used to live really close to that facility and drive by it daily for work. |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 10:29:31 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JustinU235: I don't know since we use light water. But I do know was navy nuclear coolant tastes like. Powdered hot chocolate or instant coffee in AMR2LL? |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 5:06:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Ohio: (w,stte) 
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NY, USA
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Posted: 4/25/2024 6:04:44 PM EDT
[Last Edit: NYresq1]
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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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WA, USA
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Posted: 4/25/2024 6:08:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JustinU235: I don't know since we use light water. But I do know was navy nuclear coolant tastes like. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JustinU235: Originally Posted By 21usernamechecksout: 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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Posted: 4/25/2024 6:09:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By NYresq1: @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... That's a fuel assembly full of uranium pellets. |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 6:19:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Matthew_Q: I'd love to see Cherenkov radiation sometime in my life... As long as it is in water, and not the air around you being ionized. |
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FL, USA
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Posted: 4/25/2024 7:12:50 PM EDT
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Got to see that at the UF campus nuke plant. It was very beautiful.
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Posted: 4/25/2024 7:18:55 PM EDT
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Why is blue
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Posted: 4/25/2024 7:28:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By USA1st: Why is blue Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By USA1st: 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. |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 7:38:38 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Grendelsbane]
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Quote HistoryQuote HistoryOriginally Posted By redoubt: Originally Posted By USA1st: 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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Posted: 4/25/2024 8:23:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JustinU235: Beaver Valley Power station unit 1 refueling outage. They're removing the core for maintenance and refueling. I did a LOT of work at Bruce Mansfield before I moved to Ohio. |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 9:44:04 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 21usernamechecksout: 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 You can try it yourself. |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 9:52:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By -daddy: They feed on your fear and hot pockets........ And Mnt Dew, can't forget the dew! 
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