Reed College TARGA I reactor SCRAM (new audio)

[Bi2m4rk]

I WANT TO WORK THERE!!!!! in a fucking reactor... its a dream.

[soberek]

It looks soooo Black Mesa-like...

[pa1epink]

TRIGA: Training, Research and Irradiation, Gulf Atomic (GA is the manufacturer)

[365fg]

Freakiest pool I would hate falling in.



[Xezlec]

@365fg You'd be fine as long as you didn't cannonball down to the bottom. The water near the core very effectively screens out the radiation long before it gets to the top. The water itself isn't very radioactive either (believe it or not).

[lexichronicle2]

Radiation breaking the speed of light? Isn't that radiation slowing down from the speed of light / ionising the water.

[hettbeans]

@lexichronicle2 The "speed of light" is the speed of light in a vacuum. Light doesn't progagate at c in all materials. For example light propagates at 75% of c through water. The blue glow is from electrons moving faster than the speed at which light propagates through the material, but not faster than c.

[spacehelmetforacow]

@hettbeans Precisely. Cerenkov radiation is sort of the optical version of a sonic boom.

[steamant]

Blue Beauty.

[zenmachinefilms]

About two miles from my home.

My understanding is that only the tiniest amount of radioactive material has been in this reactor for years.

[zarChuch0]

@GIRLIKESTACOS uh... they would pull you out. You would damage it far more than it would damage you. Assuming you didn't drink any (and can tread water for 15 seconds). The so pure that it would cause an electrolyte imbalance, which would be fatal if not treated immediately. But the fact that the water is in contact with a nuclear reactor would not increase the danger at all.

[GIRLIKESTACOS]

Jesus, what would happen if you fell in there?

[zarChuch0]

Because you're illiterate. DUH! I mean, you are commenting on a Youtube video.

[kingkuro]

Ah, how could I forget that acronym?!

[zarChuch0]

TARGA = Tiny Aquarium Reactor Generating Awesomeness?

[zarChuch0]

*hero

[kingkuro]

It's a TRIGA reactor. There is no such thing as TARGA.

[zarChuch0]

Evan is my here!