Starting a nuclear reactor - GIF

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Starting a nuclear reactor. The blue glow emitted by the reactor is the Cherenkov radiation. Named after named Soviet scientist and Nobel Prize winner Pavel Cherenkov, the electromagnetic radiation is emitted when a charged particle (such as an electron) moves through a dielectric medium faster than the phase velocity of light in that medium.




More:

https://www.nuclear-power.net/nuclea...kov-radiation/

Previously:

Hand-held laser for nuclear decommissioning
Forging nuclear-grade zirconium - GIF
1963 video of USS Enterprise, the first nuclear aircraft carrier