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#365 – Wait, why is Jeff glowing?
Welcome back Jeff Keyzer of Mightyohm.com!
- Jeff will be in New Zealand in December! Hit him up on his twitter (@mightyohm) to schedule a time to hang out!
- He is now making more kits for Mightyohm.com!
- Geiger tubes aren’t as hard to source (or at least any harder than before)
- 5 years at Valve, creating the Steam controller (among other things)
- “High volume is addicting” (because of the level of support
- The B Reactor is located in Richland, WA. Also known as the Hanford large scale nuclear reactor
- The LIGO facility is also there.
- Calutron girls
- Chicago Pile 1
- Check out the area on a map
- Tickets are March through November
- The guillotine cut apart process tubes
- 360 degree panoramas
- xkcd radiation
- Poison splines
- How to build a reactor
- The making of the atomic bomb (Richard Rhodes)
- Windscale reactor in the UK
- Einstein letter about uranium
- More personal histories of the reactor and the area
Thanks to Jeff for being on the show! The picture at the top is the tubes in the B Reactor. For more pictures follow Jeff on Twitter or on Instagram.