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Title: Reactor unit at Savannah River plant
Date(s): 1960/1969, 1960, 1969
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: 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.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4007
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Artist rendering of the Heavy Water Components Test Reactor at Savannah River plant
Date(s): 1960/1969, 1960, 1969
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4020
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Loading the initial fuel charge in the heavy water components test reactor at the Atomic Energy Commission's Savannah River Plant
Date(s): 1960/1969, 1960, 1969
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: 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 the background. Radioactive fuel elements can be safely transported to a water filled storage pit within the lead shielded cylinder rising from the mechanical drive platform. Installation of the 24 fuel assembles was accomplished on March 1st and...
Show moreThis 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 the background. Radioactive fuel elements can be safely transported to a water filled storage pit within the lead shielded cylinder rising from the mechanical drive platform. Installation of the 24 fuel assembles was accomplished on March 1st and the reactor attained criticality on March 3, 1962.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4027
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Heavy Water Components Test Reactor at Savannah River plant
Date(s): 1960/1969, 1960, 1969
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: 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, 1962. The $9,750,000 research facility will be used to test nuclear fuel elements and reactor components as part of the AEC's nationwide program looking towards economic generation of electricity using nuclear fuels.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4019
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Nuclear reactor
Date(s): 1950/1970, 1950, 1970
Creator: Lukens Steel Company
Description: Written on verso: 'Combustion Engineering, Chattanooga, Tenn, Lukenweld.'
Collection ID: Lukens Steel Company photographs (Accession 1972.360)
Hagley ID: 72360_0695
Collection: Lukens Steel Company photographs

Title: The Story of the Atomic Energy Commission's Savannah River Plant Riser Plant
Date(s): 1955
Creator: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (sponsor), Feierbacher, John L. (director), Harvey, H. M., Jr. (cinematographer), Runde, Frederick Joseph, Jr., 1915-2004 (cinematographer), Mims, A. B. (Alvin Brooks), Jr., 1912-1974 (artist)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Atomic Energy Division, Savannah River Plant photographs and films (Accession 1989.335)
Hagley ID: FILM_1989335_FC98
Collection: Film and Video

Title: Reactor unit at Savannah River plant
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: 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.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4001
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Reactor unit at Savannah River plant
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: 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.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4005
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Heavy Water Components Test Reactor at Savannah River plant
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: 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 above ground level. The Heavy Water Components Test Reactor is used to test nuclear fuel elements and reactor components as part of the Atomic Energy Commission's nation wide program looking toward economic generation of electricity using nuclear...
Show moreThe 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 above ground level. The Heavy Water Components Test Reactor is used to test nuclear fuel elements and reactor components as part of the Atomic Energy Commission's nation wide program looking toward economic generation of electricity using nuclear fuels. The building in the background was Construction headquarters in early days of the Savannah River Plant, the wing immediately at the back of the dome is HWCTR Administrative Headquarters.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4018
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection