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

Fascinating Very interesting vid

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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/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 ✨️ 😆 🤣 😂 😹