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Beta-flare picturesRadiating and ionized exhaust from a nuclear power plant makes the air glow a bit like in a fluorescent bulb. Red is produced when oxygen molecule receives UV-exitement from which nitrogen gives blue.How to filmEffects of beta-flare can be distinguished even with a modest digital camera and a basic image editor. The best conditions for a power plant picture are gray sky and a hazy evening before the lights are turned on. Then you just have to apply contrast. Or enhance a separate colour channel. And there it is! If you were succesfull, the shape of the mysterious cloud of color reveals it's origin: the pipe that is said to exchaust nothing but air...---- Olkiluoto: red channel. Nasty looking but with distinguishable amount of red forcing out from the plant number one. The other was revised at the time.  Olkiluoto: blue channel. Look especially at number one again. There is definitely something coming out, something much more hazardous than the claimed room temperature air. C'mon, why else would you need a 100m high ventilation pipe?  Olkiluoto: odd circumstances. There is a sharp layer in the air, clouds appear red even to a naked eye and a strong wind is stripping them instead of moving the whole thing. This is so far the only beta-flare picture with such wind and the effects of Ol-1 and Ol-2 can be seen separately.  Red channel boost.  Added contrast.  Two Olkiluoto clips with absolutely still, specially misty weather. Simplest possible contrast enchantment with Windows image manipuolator. Coherent and symmetrical glow is popping out stunningly. Aspiriinia     Syyttävä sormi   Random pictures from the internetOlkiluoto: Nice solid background and a loose pixel popping out straight from the pipe.   Gongliao: Both red and blue channel interfere with the pipe peculiarly.   Ignalina: Of course all of this colour can't be glowing air. As you can see from the snow, white balance happens to be a bit off to red. But is the connection to the pipe incidental or another case of "more red than the surroundings"?  To find out, here is more complex attempt. The other unit shows slight glow also, but not so impressing. Let's move on.  Ignalina: Ok. Now there is no question where the pink above the right chimney comes from.   Beautiful puff of miniatyre-like beta-flare.  Ringhals: You can even follow the pinkness to trace the location of the second pipe!  Multiple filters reveal some blobs of colour but you don't have to be an expert to say that yes, one of them is beta-flare.  Odd section: Unpropable compression link. Polarizing boundary in air through polarizing sunclasses 1, 2. Just cool colours link. Back |
