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Originally posted by PWL
Kryptonite, what is kryptonite a piece of green glowing rock. Looks likes ordinary piece nueclear waste.
I thought I might comment on this just for fun. It's a common misconception that radio active material has a green glow.
Too many cartoons and comic books continue to support this myth.
The fact of the matter is that highly radio active material such as a spent fuel rod, taken from a nuclear reactor for example, has a purple hue to it.
The color used when describing a radio active particulate is Magenta.
Every time we go into a re-fueling outage at the plant, I have to go into the containment building and watch the crew pull up the spent fuel rod bundles. I have to ensure that proper safety procedures are being used around the reactor cavity.
Prior to the reactor head being pulled, the surrounding cavity is flooded with water to provide a shield around the fuel bundles.
When these bundles come up out of the reactor core into the surrounding cavity, they have the most incredible purple glow to them. It is one of the most facinating thing's I've witnessed, other than watching my wife give birth to our three sons.
Tim.
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[Edited by BigUmp56 on Dec 10th, 2005 at 03:07 AM]