Re: The blueness of water

[William Beaty <billb@ESKIMO.COM>]

On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Bernard Cleyet wrote:

> Did anyone mention the blue at the bottom of the pool covering the reactor
> might be due to Cherenkov radiation?

Yep.  The reactor wasn't in use, so no interesting glow.  We wanted them
to turn off the lights, but the guide said that it would just be dark down
there.

I tried looking up the Cornell page for photos but only found one.  I
think it was the Ward reactor I saw back in 1974 or so:

  http://www.osp.cornell.edu/vpr/ward/wcns.html


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