A Simpsons giggle
Bookworm on Jul 27 2006 at 10:45 am | Filed under: Uncategorized
Here’s an example of the fact that people with too much time on their hands sometimes create amusing things.
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Too funny! They did an excellent job catching all the little details.
Haha - awesome. I’m impressed with the skateboard move on to the car roof. And of course the uranium stick.
Controller rods. WIth the internet, book, everyone has too much time on their hands, simply because when work is distributed across a network, it gets done faster and with less individual effort.
Nope—I’d have to agree with Clint that it’s one of the fuel pellets. Control rods are just neutron absorbers usually made out of metals such as silver, indium, and cadmium (picture at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_rod) They don’t glow but neither does the fissile material (at least in the visible spectrum.) The blue glow one sees in a pool reactor is due to Cherenkov radiation caused when charged particles are moving through the water faster than the speed of light through the same water (kind of a sonic boom for light.)
So while none of the reactor materials actually glow in the visible spectrum, control rods are made of stable materials whereas radioactive materials are (by defination) unstable and thus give off both particles and radiation in order to minimize their energy and achieve a stable state. The glowing stick would indicate a release of radiation (just in the wrong spectrum), thus indicating a radioactive nature of the material.