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Category : Nuclear reactors
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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History of the Graphite Reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Author: The Oak Ridge National Laboratory Graphite Reactor
Author: The Graphite Reactor
Author: Oak Ridge National LaboratoryPublisher:
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Category : Nuclear reactors
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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An Account of Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Thirteen Research Reactors
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Category : Nuclear reactors
Languages : en
Pages : 66
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The Oak Ridge National Laboratory has built and operated 13 nuclear reactors in its 66-year history. The first was the graphite reactor, the world's first operational nuclear reactor, which served as a plutonium production pilot plant during World War II. It was followed by two aqueous-homogeneous reactors and two red-hot molten-salt reactors that were parts of power-reactor development programs and by eight others designed for research and radioisotope production. One of the eight was an all-metal fast burst reactor used for health physics studies. All of the others were light-water cooled and moderated, including the famous swimming-pool reactor that was copied dozens of times around the world. Two of the reactors were hoisted 200 feet into the air to study the shielding needs of proposed nuclear-powered aircraft. The final reactor, and the only one still operating today, is the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) that was built particularly for the production of californium and other heavy elements. With the world's highest flux and recent upgrades that include the addition of a cold neutron source, the 44-year-old HFIR continues to be a valuable tool for research and isotope production, attracting some 500 scientific visitors and guests to Oak Ridge each year. This report describes all of the reactors and their histories.
An Account of Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Thirteen Research Reactors
Author: Murray W. RosenthalPublisher:
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Category : Nuclear reactors
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Oak Ridge National Laboratory has built and operated 13 nuclear reactors in its 66-year history. The first was the graphite reactor, the world's first operational nuclear reactor, which served as a plutonium production pilot plant during World War II. It was followed by two aqueous-homogeneous reactors and two red-hot molten-salt reactors that were parts of power-reactor development programs and by eight others designed for research and radioisotope production. One of the eight was an all-metal fast burst reactor used for health physics studies. All of the others were light-water cooled and moderated, including the famous swimming-pool reactor that was copied dozens of times around the world. Two of the reactors were hoisted 200 feet into the air to study the shielding needs of proposed nuclear-powered aircraft. The final reactor, and the only one still operating today, is the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) that was built particularly for the production of californium and other heavy elements. With the world's highest flux and recent upgrades that include the addition of a cold neutron source, the 44-year-old HFIR continues to be a valuable tool for research and isotope production, attracting some 500 scientific visitors and guests to Oak Ridge each year. This report describes all of the reactors and their histories.
The First Nuclear Era
Author: Alvin M. WeinbergPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1563963582
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The autobiography of a highly influential nuclear engineer and scientist whose work began in the 1940s and continues today. He recounts his education, his role in the Manhattan Project, his stint as director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (1955- 73), and his subsequent work with both successful and unsuccessful commercial power reactors. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Author: Leland JohnsonPublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9780870498541
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Leland Johnson and Daniel Schaffer begin their narrative in 1943 when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built ORNL in the hills of East Tennessee to produce plutonium for atomic weapons. After World War II, ORNL became a center for fundamental scientific research under the successive management of the Atomic Energy Commission, the Energy Research and Development Administration, and the Department of Energy.
Proposal to Reload the Ornl Graphite Reactor with Enriched Uranium
Author: The Girls of Atomic City
Author: Denise KiernanPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451617534
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Looks at the contributions of the thousands of women who worked at a secret uranium-enriching facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee during World War II.
Working on the Bomb
Author: S. L. SangerPublisher: Continuing Education Press
ISBN: 9780876781159
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The history of the Hanford Engineering Works, a site in eastern Washington that produced and separated plutonium for the Manhattan Project.