If I'm not mistaken, the water looks bright blue because some particles are going faster than light in this water. So it emits a blue flash akin to the Sonic boom when a plane goes faster than sound speed in the atmosphere. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation
Not sure about this particular experiment, but neutrino detectors are usually deep underground and trying to find a tiny tiny spark of Cherenkov radiation or other effects.
I'm guessing the blue colour is simply paint.
From Wikipedia (and my neutrino physics knowledge) , the goal is to measure neutrino oscillation (neutrino charge flavour when travelling), and it seens to be a set of detector located at various distance from a nuclear reactor. The photo mostly looks like one of the reactors rather than the detector
Water IS blue but not enough to explain why the ocean is as blue as it is
While relatively small quantities of water appear to be colorless, pure water has a slight blue color that becomes deeper as the thickness of the observed sample increases
I've seen it from afar and it is indeed a bright blue.
Edit: I don't think that is what we are see here though. It looks like the water itself might have something added to it. There are several elements that absorb neutrons. Such as boron but I'm unsure what color it would be dissolved in water. I inhaled boron gas when I was on the first crew into the containment building at a shutdown. Had to stay at decon until it was out of my lungs.
I saw the spent fuel pool at a nuke from over a hundred feet. It was low light and you could clearly see the blue glow from the spent fuel rods. We were just passing through so it was a quick look to the work site and back from it.
I've also seen a reactor shutdown with the fuel rods exposed in preparation for a fuel shuffle. There may have been a glow but all the lights were on so it would have been washed away.
Weird fact, you could technically swim in a cooling pond if the reactor is in shutdown or idle. It's not particularly smart but also not particularly deadly unless you dive down closer to the tractor body itself.
A guy fell in the moon pool at a nuke I was working at. He was out less than ten seconds later. It caused a full inventory since the basket was out of the reactor and the tops of the fuel rods were exposed. Its frowned upon to the point the guy got a early layoff.
If they had a Chinese villain it would get banned in China. If it had a Chinese experiment go wrong and create a hero then it might get banned in China.
Well, all kinds of material is banned in China, for all kinds of foolish or applicable reasons, as per the case.
Ordinarily I wouldn't give a toss what they do, but then again, they've bought in to all kinds of popular industries, so absolutely they might have a big say in that.
Marvel specifically have made changes for Chinese releases and posters before. They also have enough sway to make John Cena apologize for calling Taiwan a country, leading to John Xina memes.
Yeap, it's a known thing. Similar situation with Daryl Morey and others in the NBA rightfully calling out the Uyghur atrocities, then getting huge negative blowback. Same reason for LeBron, who ordinarily leans towards progressivism, being such a hypocrite and sellout on the matter.
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9point6@lemmy.world · 76 pts · 137d
Honestly I don't know why, but submerging a big machine just makes it look 10x cooler (in a figurative sense, in addition to literal)
I don't make the rules
Screen_Shatter@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 137d
It always seems ominous to me. It could be 100% inert and harmless and knowing that I would still absolutely lose my shit panicking if I fell in.
catbum@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 137d
Submechanophobia vibes, for sure.
I'm not tangled... it grabbed my leg ^ahhhhfuckahhhhh^
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 137d
"It's just there for cooling" - someone
"NO IT GRABBED ME AND PULLED ME IN, I DIDNT TRIP!" - Me
Transcendant@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 137d
You're not wrong!
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 137d
You’re right, and the Cherenkov radiation just makes it look cooler
oce@jlai.lu · 28 pts · 137d
If I'm not mistaken, the water looks bright blue because some particles are going faster than light in this water. So it emits a blue flash akin to the Sonic boom when a plane goes faster than sound speed in the atmosphere. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation
prex@aussie.zone · 16 pts · 137d
Not sure about this particular experiment, but neutrino detectors are usually deep underground and trying to find a tiny tiny spark of Cherenkov radiation or other effects.
I'm guessing the blue colour is simply paint.
Ziggurat@jlai.lu · 5 pts · 137d
From Wikipedia (and my neutrino physics knowledge) , the goal is to measure neutrino oscillation (neutrino charge flavour when travelling), and it seens to be a set of detector located at various distance from a nuclear reactor. The photo mostly looks like one of the reactors rather than the detector
giacomo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 137d
maybe the neutrinos are emitting blueberry charge flavor.
prex@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 137d
I stand corrected. It certainly doesn't look like paint & who would want blue water.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 137d
I mean... I'm not saying that isn't happening but also water is just blue.
Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org · 1 pts · 137d
...water isn't blue 🤨
...have you been drinking blue water? 🤨
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 136d
It is slightly blue, it's just only noticeable when it gets deep enough. So yeah we've all been drinking blue water lol
jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 137d
Water IS blue but not enough to explain why the ocean is as blue as it is
Wikipedia
The color of the ocean is due to atmospheric scattering affecting blue light (short wavelength) more than longer wavelength.
Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org · 3 pts · 137d
Ok so it wouldn't affect a small pool like in the picture.
jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works · -5 pts · 137d
Keep moving those goalposts
I'd expect no less from a feddit user
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 136d
Duke was here to learn but apparently you’re just here to be a jerk.
Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org · 1 pts · 137d
😡😡😡😡<- u rn lol
jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 137d
If you bothered looking at the first image in intrinsic color it would show you that youre wrong, but you seem to know better
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 7 pts · 137d
Yup, it's basically the underwater version of sonic booms. Pretty cool stuff
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 137d
I've seen it from afar and it is indeed a bright blue.
Edit: I don't think that is what we are see here though. It looks like the water itself might have something added to it. There are several elements that absorb neutrons. Such as boron but I'm unsure what color it would be dissolved in water. I inhaled boron gas when I was on the first crew into the containment building at a shutdown. Had to stay at decon until it was out of my lungs.
I saw the spent fuel pool at a nuke from over a hundred feet. It was low light and you could clearly see the blue glow from the spent fuel rods. We were just passing through so it was a quick look to the work site and back from it.
I've also seen a reactor shutdown with the fuel rods exposed in preparation for a fuel shuffle. There may have been a glow but all the lights were on so it would have been washed away.
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 137d
Yup, pretty much the only kind of radiation we can see without melting your eyeballs.
Fun fact, you can totally swim in that pool. Don’t go too deep but it’s cleaner and safer than your average public pool.
Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 137d
Thats cool as fuck, thanks for explaining!
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 137d
Forbidden jacuzzi.
Madison420@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 137d
Weird fact, you could technically swim in a cooling pond if the reactor is in shutdown or idle. It's not particularly smart but also not particularly deadly unless you dive down closer to the tractor body itself.
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 137d
A guy fell in the moon pool at a nuke I was working at. He was out less than ten seconds later. It caused a full inventory since the basket was out of the reactor and the tops of the fuel rods were exposed. Its frowned upon to the point the guy got a early layoff.
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social · 11 pts · 137d
Absolutely perfect for a... I dunno, James Bond or Marvel superhero movie!
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 4 pts · 137d
If they had a Chinese villain it would get banned in China. If it had a Chinese experiment go wrong and create a hero then it might get banned in China.
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social · 5 pts · 137d
Well, all kinds of material is banned in China, for all kinds of foolish or applicable reasons, as per the case.
Ordinarily I wouldn't give a toss what they do, but then again, they've bought in to all kinds of popular industries, so absolutely they might have a big say in that.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 5 pts · 137d
Marvel specifically have made changes for Chinese releases and posters before. They also have enough sway to make John Cena apologize for calling Taiwan a country, leading to John Xina memes.
tanisnikana@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 137d
Taiwan is a country.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 4 pts · 137d
Correct! Points on the board!
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 1 pts · 137d
You're missing the point
tanisnikana@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 137d
No, I’m picking a fight with China.
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social · 6 pts · 137d
Yeap, it's a known thing. Similar situation with Daryl Morey and others in the NBA rightfully calling out the Uyghur atrocities, then getting huge negative blowback. Same reason for LeBron, who ordinarily leans towards progressivism, being such a hypocrite and sellout on the matter.
Money, power and influence.
saltnotsugar@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 137d
I’m no expert but I do believe that if a scientist accidentally falls in, they will become Neutrino Man.
homes@piefed.world · 5 pts · 137d
I, too, am at risk of overheating and would like a cooling bath.