Reactor operators at the High Flux Isotope Reactor (IMAGE)

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Reactor operators at the High Flux Isotope Reactor

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HFIR reactor operators working from a motorized bridge use hand tools that are 30 feet long to work on the reactor core submerged in a pool 17 feet deep. 

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Genevieve Martin/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy

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