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Re:President Jimmy Carter has passed away by lisper on Sunday December 29, 2024 @05:57PM (#42544279)
> I lived in the Knoxville/Oak Ridge TN area at the time

Hey, so did I! ORHS class of '82. Maybe we met back in the day?

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Re:President Jimmy Carter has passed away by CalChris on Sunday December 29, 2024 @06:15PM (#42544438)
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.
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Re:President Jimmy Carter has passed away by chasil on Sunday December 29, 2024 @06:43PM (#42544667)
I am assuming the blue glow was due to Cherenkov radiation.

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

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Re:President Jimmy Carter has passed away by bwanab on Sunday December 29, 2024 @06:05PM (#42544361)
ORHS '70, so probably not :(
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