KSU Nuclear Reactor Pulse

Kansas State University's General Atomics Triga Mark II research reactor undergoing a $2.8 pulse to 578MW.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Nuclear
• Reactor
• Pulse
• K-State
• KSU
• Triga
• General
• Atomics

[TheChuchulainn]

Environmentalists are such fools. They're against imagined anthropogenic global warming but they're also against technology such as nuclear power (which is far safer than hippies would have you believe) that doesn't produce carbon emissions. Dumbasses.

[thebestsumoeva]

@effekt4 More people die from falling off wind mills during repairs every year than have died in US Nuclear power plants ever. Then again US Nuclear power has never killed anyone so it's pretty hard to beat that safety. Now go back to reading your fitness magazine and stop spouting non sense about things you have no clue about.

[MrNickT]

@pdt1452 Technically there have been deaths attributed to Nuclear Energy.  There have been many criticality accidents at fuel facilities, and a few other accidents (SL-1, Demon Core) which could be attributed to nuclear power. For commercial nuclear power reactors however, there have been no deaths which I'm aware of.

[nummydoughnuts]

i would lulz and scream in terror if some one dropped a camera in a reactor during a pulse

[musicfreakcc]

@pdt1452 Actually, there were 3 people killed in the SL-1 accident.

[suqies]

depending on what the fuel is, if uranium it is only 3 % enriched in reactors, you need 97% for a bomb.

[BWIENS789]

The blue light is Cherenkov radiation. It is when electrons or beta particles go faster than the speed of light in a medium. The medium is the water in this situation.

[deaftodd]

What makes it to glow blue? Is it really burning bright blue/white and it became more blue while passing through the water?

[prcsouthwest]

@geonerd yeah, another of the greats "look ma, no hands"

[prcsouthwest]

@pdt1452 Couple of points to make on this, 1.) I am glad you are fine with nuclear materials in your closet, because i DO NOT want them in mine. 2.) If you live anywhere near me, i dont want them in yours either. 3.) Never been a death in "america" from nuclear nrg, there has never been a release of radiation on the magnitude of chernobyl or Japan in america, No one has launched themself into space on a home made rocket and died in america either, still its not a great idea.

[prcsouthwest]

@pdt1452 Except for those brave souls attempting to get Japans nuclear plants under control.

[geonerd]

"That was brighter than the last one!"

I can just hear his next line, "Hey guys, watch this!"

(Famous last words.)

Without knowing anything about this reactor, I do find that guy's remarks to be just a little too cavalier. It's a freaking nuclear reactor dude, whatever its power output, it deserves some respect.