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[gfish]

Today I was exposed to less than 0.1 millirems of radiation. That isn't unusual, of course, but I don't usually spend the day wearing a digital dosimeter, touring a nuclear reactor.

Cherenkov radiation is pretty.

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[grinninfoole.livejournal.com]

What reactor is this, and where is it?

[tnarg42.livejournal.com]

Oooh, a *digital* dosimeter... When I spent a day at Ohio State's reactor they didn't even pin film ones on us. I seem to recall that at the top of the reactor pool, a meter was reading about 2-3 mRem/hr, and I spent about 10 minutes up there. The reactor was running at about 10% power (basically enough to show us the Cherenkov glow), but they told us they don't like people at the top of the pool when running closer to full power (500 kw).

And yes, Cherenkov radiation is very pretty... All misty and blue...