The dome in the foreground is part of containment vessel housing the Heavy Water Components Test Reactor at the Savannah River Plant. The vessel is 70 feet in diameter and approximately 125 feet high. Shown is the 65 foot portion of the structure...
The Heavy Water Components Test Reactor, an experimental pressurized heavy water reactor, designed and built by the DuPont Company for the Atomic Energy Commission at its Savannah River Plant near Aiken, South Carolina became operative March 3,...
The field assemblies are shown under twenty feet of water and behind empty fuel hangers. For the high flux operation, the Atomic Energy Commission has converted a reactor from military to peaceful applications. The objectives of this operation are...
Typed caption: "This reactor was a vital tool in the development of a successful nylon salt process. It cost $25,000. An eight-man construction gang and a six-man operating crew spent two and a half months setting it up. Its operation for a month...
This is the manufacturing (reactor) unit at the Savannah River Plant. Plutonium produced in SRP reactors in the interest of national security also has potential use as a fuel for use in power reactors to generate electric energy.
This is the manufacturing (reactor) unit at the Savannah River Plant. Plutonium produced in SRP reactors in the interest of national security also has potential use as a fuel for use in power reactors to generate electric energy.
This photograph shows the loading operations prior to initial startup of the HWCTR. The operation of a special tool for removing fuel housing tubes is being observed. Actual loading and unloading of fuel are accomplished by the refueling machine in...
This is one of the manufacturing (reactor) units at the Savannah River Plant. Plutonium produced at the plant in the interest of national security also has potential use as a fuel for use in power reactors to generate electrical energy.
What at first glance appear to be a mass of pipes and wheels is really an important reactor in which chlorine from salt is combined with acetylene to form tetrachlorethane at the DuPont Companys Electrochemicals Department plant at Niagara Falls...
