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To: AFPhys

:-)

I always wanted more nuke plants. I had the opportunity of sitting on the edge of a TRIGA bathtub uranium reactor and seeing the Cerenkov radiation with my own eyes as it lit up the core.


6 posted on 08/18/2005 9:16:21 AM PDT by RadioAstronomer (Senior member of Darwin Central)
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To: RadioAstronomer
"I always wanted more nuke plants. I had the opportunity of sitting on the edge of a TRIGA bathtub uranium reactor and seeing the Cerenkov radiation with my own eyes as it lit up the core."

Ditto that. My experience was at U. of Texas (Austin). Cool "nuclear flash bulb".

28 posted on 08/18/2005 9:42:40 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel)
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I truly envy some of the stuff you've done.


33 posted on 08/18/2005 10:00:59 AM PDT by FOG724 (RINOS - they are not better than leftists, they ARE leftists.)
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