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My dad worked for TVA (in Knoxville) on their nuclear plants. I got a tour of Oak Ridge including a test reactor where you could look into a reactor core … through about 20 feet of flowing water, an early unforgettable blue.



I am assuming the blue glow was due to Cherenkov radiation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation




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