Bateman Equation

[PurpleYouko]

If any of you people who haven't yet chosen a career path want a bit of advice.....

For pity's sake don't become a nuclear physicist!!!!

And if you do then keep your thrice damned equations far far far away from me.

To give you an idea what you will be letting yourself in for check out the Bateman Equation which I am currently tryin to build into a program.

UUGGHHH! My brain hurts.  :wacko:

[Numsgil]

You know, I bet it would become more fun if you called them the "Batman equations".   :D

Presentation is half the battle you know.

[Griz]

You know, I bet it would become more fun if you called them the "Batman equations"

LOL :lol:
that's what I read the header as saying. ;)

where you working PY?
seems I have the impression you are in the southwest ...
I know a few folks at los alamos.

can you tell us ... without having to then kill us. ;)

[Numsgil]

I think he's in "Missoura" ;)

[PurpleYouko]

Don't you start with that Southern Accent Boy!

I am north of the Missouri river where we know how to actually pronounce words in the English language.

Of course there is still the issue of the local towns of "Versailles" which the local call Ver-Sails and "Notre Dame" which is quaintly pronounced "Noter Dame" instead of "Notra-Dam"

Then again those words are French so I don't care anyway.  :D

I am actually at the University of Missouri Research Reactor in Columbia Mo.
For those of you who don't know, we are the place in the ABC report a couple weeks back that was reported to have an unmanned security office.

It is actually a screening trailer for incoming mail but what the heck. Mail --- Security. Same thing really aren't they?  ;)

[Numsgil]

Yeah, Americans like to rip off foreign names/terms for their cities and totally mispronounce them.  I can never get used to it.

[Botsareus]

Now PY, thats all good... just make sure you know what you are doing, we dont want no chirnoble or anything...

(and I am not saying you can't do it, but If I ever go into the extreams I would of blown up an M5 rocket or two, but stayed away from nuclear reactors -just me)nuclear reactors =  :evil:

[Numsgil]

I think I'm close enough to Missura that if it went Chernoble I'd be amont the kids with tails  :lol:

Or really bad radiation burns such that I die.  Or just get cancer 20 years later.  But the first sounds more fun.

[PurpleYouko]

If this reactor melted down then I would be perfectly safe in my home 6 miles away.
There ain't enough explosive force in a research reactor to blow your nose.

We only run at a neutron flux of 10 MegaWatts and we are set up to generate neutrons, not heat. The reactor core coolant liquid never gets to a temperature above a warm bath. A man with a garden hose could supply enough coolant to stop this core going critical.

All we do here is to irradiate sources to provide hot isotopes for use in cancer drugs and stuff. Chances are that if you know anyone who has had chemo-therapy, we produced the radioactivity for it.

[Griz]

Now PY, thats all good... just make sure you know what you are doing, we dont want no chirnoble or anything...

(and I am not saying you can't do it, but If I ever go into the extreams I would of blown up an M5 rocket or two, but stayed away from nuclear reactors -just me)nuclear reactors =  :evil:

here's a couple pics for you Bots ...
maybe make you feel better next time you get the Cherenkov Blues. ;)
http://community.webshots.com/album/32413258azyRhj
if that link changes, as Webshots sometimes does to keep folks from linking directly to pics ...
try ...  http://community.webshots.com/user/objack2
and go to the Nuc Pics album.

(you may also see Griz somewhere there ...
hangin' out with my Polar bear cousins.) ;)

[Botsareus]

Yea Dude, thats some really neat stuff; I thought PY was working on somthing like this...
I gess you have to go trough the works before they let you work on the big stuff...

[PurpleYouko]

Don't get me wrong Bots, MU research reactor is the biggest research reactor in the world. It's just that a research reactor is a completely different beast than power generating reactor.

[Botsareus]

oh, well thats gives you a clue how much I know about reactors. -Why do you need the thing anyway? (If you have time to reply)

[Numsgil]

To make pizza!

It's a giant microwave oven.  They just tell the school that they're using it for "research" ;)

[PurpleYouko]

• We research and make cancer drugs.
• We measure the concentration of toxic elements in food products for the FDA by neutron activation analysis.
• We dope chunks of Silicon with Phosphorus to make high quality 'N' type silicon so that you can have cheaper computer chips and Intel can make Pentium 4s and Celerons and stuff.
• We egnerate income for the University to the sum of around $80,000,000 per year by selling Reactor time to other people who need to use a neutron flux in their research.

And we make radioactive pizza too  :D