The heart of a nuclear reactor was captured turning a piercing blue color as it produces energy. The eerie blue glow is created from Cherenkov radiation, a phenomenon that occurs when a charged particle races through water faster than the speed of light Cherenkov radiation was first discovered in 1934 by Russian physicist Pavel Cherenkov and later expanded upon by Ilya Frank and Igor Tamm. The three men won a Nobel Prize in 1958 for their work to demonstrate and explain how Cherenkov radiation a
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The heart of a nuclear reactor was captured turning a piercing blue color as it produces energy. The eerie blue glow is created from Cherenkov radiation, a phenomenon that occurs when a charged particle races through water faster than the speed of light Cherenkov radiation was first discovered in 1934 by Russian physicist Pavel Cherenkov and later expanded upon by Ilya Frank and Igor Tamm. The three men won a Nobel Prize in 1958 for their work to demonstrate and explain how Cherenkov radiation a
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