Dinner

So I just got back from the local ANS chapter meeting.

A friend in the same field came and picked me up, and we drove the ~30 minutes to get there. The food was fantastic, especially for the student rate which was only $15 (its like $50 for someone employed in the field). Lots of pasta :D

There was a speaker from the MIT research reactor telling us about it, which I found quite interesting. (I also felt nerdy cause I understood everything he said D:)

Though I'm gonna have to ask my nuke prof a couple questions on Wednesday, cause the MIT guy said that their reactor used heavy water as a reflector.. and I've been under the impression that the maximum scattering angle of hydrogen is 90 degrees (180 would be a backscatter... reflectors are supposed to reflect neutrons back into the core)

Oh and heavy water is water except the hydrogen atoms have a neutron (its called Deuterium oxide)

Was that post too nerdy? D: