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[-] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 2 months ago

Is the last pic the criticality blue glow from reactors?

[-] wiLD0@lemmy.world 55 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Ah, it’s a photo of a mercury arc rectifier (which is more electrical engineering, maybe?), not, Cherenkov radiation.

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago

"Mercury" and "arc" on the same sentence do really, really not make one imagine something that perfectly fine to use or be around in operation.

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