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These are Amazing and a little terrifying :)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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.