Time flies when you're doing really cool shit all the time. I'm almost at the end of my third week working at ORNL! It sure doesn't feel that way, though...
My adviser today told me that he's trying to get a collaboration group together that would solely fund research based on the advancement of nuclear energy. Since that's the exact field I'm going into, that was excellent news to hear!
There's just not too much to say today, really. I'm still working on the gas delivery system and we've got three possible solutions. They would all work fine so the deciding factor now will be cost. Some of this equipment is stupid expensive... $1300 for a valve! Granted, it's a SUPER fancy valve that has no detectable leaks down to 10^(-11) torr*liters/second and it was meant to operate in ultra high vacuum... The other mass flow controller we are looking at is $1800! Science is EXPENSIVE!
I'm heading back to Atlanta tomorrow for the weekend, so I'm super excited about that. There's a psytrance show at CoLab on Saturday night, so I'll get to see all my hippy friends and I'll get to spin fire! I'm stoked!
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