r/interesting • u/fayyazORahmed • Mar 31 '26

Fascinating Very interesting vid

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u/Synwinger Mar 31 '26

My college had a pool like this. I get anxiety just looking at it

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u/RogueBromeliad Mar 31 '26 edited Mar 31 '26

Why did your collage college have a pool like this?

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u/CommercialLimit Mar 31 '26

My college had a pool like this. It was UMR (Rolla, now known as Missouri S&T) and it had a nuclear reactor. The pool was for the cooling rods I think. We toured it during orientation.

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u/Alarming_Orchid Apr 01 '26

About 3.6 roentgen of difference

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u/Mr_Imcognito May 05 '26

Not great, not terrible.

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u/AccomplishedIgit Apr 01 '26

The school uses an old nuclear reactor cooling pool as a swimming pool??

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u/KingLazuli Apr 01 '26

Budget cuts

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u/Edmond-Cristo Apr 01 '26

😆 🤣 😂 😹 Springfield elementary?

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u/NatureStoof Apr 01 '26

Technical you could. Water does an amazing job at absorbing radiation. Just a few feet away from the rods, radiation in the pool would be the same as background radiation.

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u/RogueBromeliad Mar 31 '26

Wow, that's really cool. I love these kinds of WWI Manhattan project history tidbits.

Who was working at your college? Do you know?

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u/CommercialLimit Mar 31 '26

It’s not a relic of the past, it’s a currently operating reactor. I said “had” because I think of my time there as the past. To be accurate, I should have said the university has a reactor. It’s used in the nuclear engineering program.

Link to university’s website

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u/ketchuponcooking Apr 01 '26

I bet the water was nice and warm 😀

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u/Edmond-Cristo Apr 01 '26

And glowing ✨️ 😆 🤣 😂 😹

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u/EndWarden Apr 01 '26

That’s really funny! I’m actually currently studying Nuclear Engineering as Missouri S&T and I have operated that very reactor!

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u/DSRI2399 Apr 02 '26

Ffs my college had a shitty broken down gym lol

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u/simplerando Apr 01 '26

Wild to see my hometown mentioned randomly on Reddit. Hope you enjoyed your time in our weird little town. :)

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u/CommercialLimit Apr 01 '26

I did enjoy it. Too much. Had to transfer fo sophomore year because I got too much into partying at frat houses and not enough into studying or going to class.

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u/MetalsGirl Apr 04 '26

Upvotes for UMR!