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KJZZ's The Show May 17, 2017

Cherenkov radiation
(Photo courtesy of APS)
The deep blue hue of Cherenkov radiation emanates from fuel assemblies within the open reactor core (foreground). Beneath the platform, a tube-shaped fuel handling machine extracts one of these assemblies.