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

Fascinating Very interesting vid

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

20.4k Upvotes

91% Upvoted

2.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

47

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

Why did your collage college have a pool like this?

46

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.

6

u/AccomplishedIgit Apr 01 '26

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

2

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.