High Flux Isotope Reactor
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The High Flux Isotope Reactor is a nuclear research reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States. Operating at 85 MW, HFIR is one of the highest flux reactor-based s
Aerial view of the HFIR
High Flux Isotope Reactor timeline
Simplified sketch of the core
85 MW neutron flux graph for the High Flux Isotope Reactor
Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1943, the laboratory is sponsored by the United States Department
High Flux Isotope Reactor
…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…
Aerial view of ORNL's main campus in 2014
Workers in 1943 loading uranium slugs into the X-10 Graphite Reactor (now a National Historic Landmark)
The core of the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment
Cayce Pentecost, Lyndon B. Johnson, Buford Ellington and Albert Gore Sr. operating mechanical hands at a hot cell at Oak Ridge, on October 19, 1958