Starting a nuclear reactor - GIF

Starting a nuclear reactor. The blue glow emitted by the reactor is the Cherenkov radiation. Named after named Soviet scientist and Nobel Prize winner Pavel Cherenkov, the electromagnetic radiation is emitted when a charged particle (such as an electron) moves through a dielectric medium faster than the phase velocity of light in that medium.

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More:

https://www.nuclear-power.net/nuclea...kov-radiation/

Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...2374#post96156
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...371#post104108
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...2528#post76528