If anyone wanted to show off radioactive stuff to me right now, I'd be soooo up for it
But with the proper precautions, it's not the early 1900s anymore, we know the dangers of that stuff
Let me on a tour of your nuclear reactor, I think radiation is interesting
@vaporeon_ when i was in undergrad doing nuclear physics research i studied data measured from a particle accelerator. once a year my research group would visit michigan state and we could see the accelerator for ourselves and watch some of the graduate students run an experiment with it.
the room containing the site of the beam collision, which is where we would put all the measurement devices that creates our data, was a room we could enter before the experiment would run. the walls were lined with 2 feet of concrete to guard against radiation, and entrance to the room was itself blocked by a two-foot thick slab of concrete that could be raised or lowered.
when you would activate the accelerator a bunch of alarms and lights would go off in the room as the concrete slab would slowly lower and it was neat
