Re: Google's Little Box Challenge
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 12:46 pm
Talking about nuclear you can find a few documentaries on the subject, just watched one of them a couple of weeks back on Netflix, but none of them really go into detail really of what's going on on the inside mostly probably because of security reasons and the likes. But as a child, my dad was a chemical engineer working in this research / fuel factory back home, and I go a brief private tour of the inside (I guess he never talked much about what he did for work in there and me just growing up wanted to be proud and appreciate his work). This is CANDU (Canadian) technology, not the Russian technology - I guess that's one thing Ceausescu did right...
I remember this large facility with security checkpoints and plenty radiation checkpoints, people walking around slowly in white coats with clipboards checking instruments, wearing radiation badges, and I remember this deep weird blue pool you could see stuff down at the bottom, and then going downstairs, there were people maneuvering these long robot arms to move stuff looking through this thick glass window, sort of like this
Then we went outside and seen these huge cooling towers and I remember my dad explaining briefly how it all worked and the backup to backup systems if the system went wild - and it never did, probably because of the safety designs, procedures and people training.
One last cool thing for a kid, while outside we walked to this outhouse facility where a colleague took a flower leaf, dipped in it liquid nitrogen and then dropped it on cement, shattering in so many pieces!
Mind blowing for a kid, now a flexible, soft leaf we all know about, a second later changing consistency and breaking like china. I'd say if more kids got similar tours, we'd have lots more science people
I remember this large facility with security checkpoints and plenty radiation checkpoints, people walking around slowly in white coats with clipboards checking instruments, wearing radiation badges, and I remember this deep weird blue pool you could see stuff down at the bottom, and then going downstairs, there were people maneuvering these long robot arms to move stuff looking through this thick glass window, sort of like this
Then we went outside and seen these huge cooling towers and I remember my dad explaining briefly how it all worked and the backup to backup systems if the system went wild - and it never did, probably because of the safety designs, procedures and people training.
One last cool thing for a kid, while outside we walked to this outhouse facility where a colleague took a flower leaf, dipped in it liquid nitrogen and then dropped it on cement, shattering in so many pieces!
Mind blowing for a kid, now a flexible, soft leaf we all know about, a second later changing consistency and breaking like china. I'd say if more kids got similar tours, we'd have lots more science people