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Originally Posted by masraum
That's really freakin' cool. I'd like to buy you a beer and talk, but probably from the other end of the bar, far away from all of those rampant neutrons.   |
Yeah, we started this job a couple of days after Christmas and just finished it up yesterday. Most of time was spent connecting the new piping for the super-critical hydrogen moderators (multi-layer, vacuum-jacketed piping that has to be cold-shocked with liquid nitrogen and leak tested after every weld). The neutrons are traveling at about 90% of the speed of light when they are produced, so we pass them thru liquid hydrogen to slow them down.
Here we are installing the some of the final shield blocks yesterday:
