Thursday, June 24, 2010

EBR-I

For work, I got to go on a tour of the EBR-I (experimental breeder reactor). It was the first nuclear reactor to produce a usable amount of electricity in 1951. In addition, during the cold war, they were trying to build a reactor for airplanes. Here are some pictures of the abandoned project.
Fuel rods.
The control room.
The "airplane"

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