Nuclear Reactor Pulse

The Engineers at the Nuclear Engineering Teaching Lab (NETL) at UT Austin demonstrate a reactor pulse.

All the Control Rods are removed simultaneously allowing the nuclear reaction to proceed un-dampened, bringing the energy output of the reactor to 680 Megawatts in 50 milliseconds.

Video produced by Juan Diaz at the Faculty Innovation Center

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[sErgEantaEgis12]

When stuff glow, science happens...

[DrOhLee]

@ProxyNuker not really. first of all there are no molecules moving at the speed of light but electrons (from the beta-radiation of the nuclei) NEAR the speed of light. to be precise: they are traveling through the water at a speed which is greater than the phase velocity of electromagnetic waves in the water. what you see is the superposition of the electromagnetic waves radiated by the moving electrons.

[Stuntman175]

@lemonsodumb I was talking about the new kind of renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power. But I get what you mean.

[lemonsodumb]

@Stuntman175 not all renwebale resources are harmless and safe, hydroelectric dams decimatethe local environment and habitat

[muqraker]

makes way more sense to just let industry fall, go green, and get some lives here. we're faking it and have been ever since the industrial revolution. example? the people who live around Chernobyl are being born deformed. the rate of death/cancer has skyrocketed. the Russian elite won't let it out to the media. but it's happening. youtube it. Now Japan. we're faking it, and there's gonna be human suffering like never before, because we're faking it. youtube: "Chernobyl's Ugly Truth"

[muqraker]

@Stuntman175 i wonder what all those spent fuel rods that are going to be piling up exponentially over the years gonna be doing. that's my problem. eventually this earth will be consumed by partially depleted uranium, etc.. and partially depleted uranium is the closest thing to hell anyone has ever experienced.

[Stuntman175]

@muqraker 60 years ago, people were going crazy about this new source of energy. Ford even designed in 1958 a nuclear powered car called the Ford Nucleon. Nuclear power is statistically safer than other sources of energy apart from the renewable kind. The main problem is when the shit hits the fan, the area surrounding the power plant such as Chernobyl and Fukushima becomes uninhabitable for centuries, but on the other hand, Chernobyl is a wildlife haven, undisturbed by mankind.

[muqraker]

if people 60 years ago saw video like this they'd have started a rito to stop the madness. now the madness is institutionalized AND undoubtedly going to eliminate over half of this world's human population. let's hear it for man's insatiable narcicistic drive to conquer nature- oooppps! i meant let's hear it for science.

[Vurryn]

@MrUFOwatcher1 Can you spell 'Destroy' correctly? Damned Hippy