Pulse of Power | Blue Flash at the UCI Nuclear Reactor Facility

ps.uci.edu/news/2749
Professor Sarah Finkeldei of the UC Irvine Department of Chemistry, in collaboration with fellow scientists at UCI and Los Alamos National Laboratory, was just awarded a $4.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy that will facilitate fundamental research on the properties of advanced nuclear energy materials with the aim of understanding how they behave in advanced nuclear reactors.

[@nofi2805]

super ein grandioser Erfolg für Prof . Finkeldei.....

[@Jas24601]

Super cool! But please correct the text at 0:31. No particles can move faster than the speed of light…not such a great claim for a physical science school to make…

[@SkidFace]

Hi! I am not representing or am affiliated with this research reactor in any way. However, I do stuff at a different research reactor that operates at much higher power than the one shown here. The shown text partially correct, although it could be worded better. They probably were referring to the speed of light *under* water. The speed of light we think of and usually use for calculations is the speed of light in a vacuum, but the speed of light will decrease a certain amount under water, which makes it possible for particles to produce this beautiful blue glow. Hope this helped!