Pressure tank shipped via railway
The pressure tank was shipped to Plum Brook via railway, and transported to the reactor facility on a flatbed truck. The tank was then rolled to a crane, which lifted it into place at the center of the unfinish... More
Reactor core area. NASA public domain image colelction.
The reactor core area from the top of the pressure tank. The reactor core (right side of the box) comprises a uranium-fueled section (a center array of three hole by nine holes for fuel control rods) surrounded... More
Interior of the Plum Brook Reactor Facility
A view inside the 55-foot high containment vessel of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Plum Brook Reactor Facility in Sandusky, Ohio. The 60-megawatt test reactor went critical for the fi... More
Diagram showing two insertion tables in Quadrant C
Diagram of two insertion tables in Quadrant C. Experiments were loaded here and sent through the two horizontal through-holes or ports (HT-1 and HT-2) into the reactor core to be exposed to radiation. After irr... More