Cherenkov light is such a beautiful blue, it really has its own unique look. Honestly one of my favorite colors, just a little more spicy than most.
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My university had a reactor similar to the first one and there was a parabolic mirror angled over the pool so we could look in from the control room. I always loved watching the Cherenkov radiation and thinking about how I was basically seeing a photonic boom.
So many feelings. I'm a proponent of nuclear power, but I'll be the first to admit that I find this both fascinating and a little bit scary, yes.
Also less enthusiastic after reading about the dishonesty surrounding Three Mile Island.
I was just up there a couple months ago. We stayed at a hotel. There was a really dense fog the night we arrived. The next morning I woke up and there were the cooling towers 4 miles away bigger than life.
The plant was old tech. The actual amount release was minor, but yeah, it was a serious breakdown in communication. We really could do better now, but the cost of being as safe as possible probably makes the operating cost pretty rough.
My biggest worry is accidents are still not a thing of the past. Fukushima is 12 years old, we still can't seem to work out passive failsafe in conventional fission.
