Busse Snakeskin and Blue Titanium

[rbmcmjr]

I don't know why but I kinda want to touch that. I don't even know what it is but I wanna touch it.

It would be the last thing you ever did, unfortunately. This is the Advanced Test Reactor (ATR), which is located down the road from me at work. The curlicue/cloverleaf shape is the actual fuel element array. The big tubes are the test loops where the stuff being irradiated lives. The whole thing is under water, which is why there is so much Cherenkov blue in the photo.

More info here if you are interested: http://www.inl.gov/research/advanced-test-reactor-research/

 

[Will York]

I don't know why but I kinda want to touch that. I don't even know what it is but I wanna touch it.

"And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy..."

Actually, I had the same reaction to Mike's OP--may have the same result Rick describes.