At 10:22 03/16/2001 -0600, you wrote: >Hey Ron, > What a sales feature, especially if we could get it to glow >in the dark, just like a neuclear fuel rod cooling pond. >Have forgotten the effect of gamma on carbon, (graphite) but trust me not >nice. >Roger The earliest control rods for nuclear reactors were graphite because of its propensity to soak up neutrons and thus limit (or control, hence the name) the nuclear chain reaction. They don't glow. Gamma is ionizing radiation and will heat up anything it hits. ex-nuke Conrad Conrad Hoffsommer - mailto:hoffsoco@luther.edu What if there were no hypothetical questions?
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