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The core of the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment. In 1950 the Oak Ridge School of Reactor Technology was established with two courses in reactor operation and safety; almost 1,000 students graduated. [22] Much of the research performed at ORNL in the 1950s was related to nuclear reactors as a form of energy production, both for propulsion and ...
The reactor vessel of the Oak Ridge Research Reactor is loaded into a protective shipping container for transportation and disposal offsite. Workers removed 127,000 gallons of water and sediment ...
The High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) is a nuclear research reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States.Operating at 85 MW, HFIR is one of the highest flux reactor-based sources of neutrons for condensed matter physics research in the United States, and it has one of the highest steady-state neutron fluxes of any research reactor in the world.
The X-10 Graphite Reactor is a decommissioned nuclear reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.Formerly known as the Clinton Pile and X-10 Pile, it was the world's second artificial nuclear reactor (after Enrico Fermi's Chicago Pile-1) and the first intended for continuous operation.
And 53 years after Seaborg wrote his letter to Strauss, on Apr. 5, 2010, tennessine (element 117, named after Tennessee) was discovered in Russia using berkelium produced in Oak Ridge at HFIR ...
Oak Ridge National Laboratory is one of two nuclear reactors in the world that regularly produces weighable quantities of man-made elements with an atomic mass higher than that of uranium.
The Molten-Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE) was an experimental molten-salt reactor research reactor at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. This technology was researched through the 1960s, the reactor was constructed by 1964, it went critical in 1965, and was operated until 1969. [ 1 ]
Alongside contractor United Cleanup Oak Ridge, the office tore down the Low Intensity Test Reactor at ORNL, which operated between 1949 and 1968, and prepared the Oak Ridge Research Reactor for ...