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_T• @_theveiledpast .When a nuclear reactor first powers on, it produces a deep blue glow that is rarely seen anywhere else.
This light is called Cherenkov radiation. It appears when charged particles move through water faster than light can travel in that same medium. It is not a flame, but a visual effect created by energy pushing past a physical limit.
The phenomenon was first observed in 1934 by Pavel Cherenkov and later explained by Ilya Frank and Igor Tamm. Their work earned the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics. Cherenkov radiation remains one of the most striking examples of how nuclear reactions reveal the hidden physics of the atomic world.
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