... Reactor at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, the only US. plant similar to the burning Soviet reactor with a graphite core and without a containment dome. N Reactor is one of five Department of Energy plutomum reactors that lack ...
... reactor. Such a reactor, designers say would shut itself down immediately without human intervention or backup systems in the event of a breakdown similar to what happened at Three Mile Island in 1979 and apparently at the Chernobyl ...
... Reactor Concept and Site Selection Advisory Panel in July 1982. The group studied seven "candidate reactor concepts" and four -sites. One site — the Nevada Test •Site — was ruled out because a reactor there could create conflicts with ...
... Reactor and it probably should not be restarted. ' And Robert Alvarez of the Environmental Policy Institute says the report only "muddies the waters" further concerning the safety and future operation of the aging defense production ...
Atomic Age Developments Feature U.S. 'Reactor Farm'. By FRANK CAHEY. NATIONAL REACTOR TEST- ING STATION, Idaho (AP) — Three now and potentially revo- luUonary atomic age developments are progressing well at Uncle Sam's "reactor farm ...
Citizens can state opinions on N Reactor. By Michael Murphey Stall writer. All the time slots for testimony at today's "scoping hearings" on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation's N Reactor have been booked, but U.S. Department of Energy ...
... reactor to produce materials for the nation's nuclear weapons. ' ' •>• A delegation of state and federal. officiate from the two states, beaded by Sens. Sam Nunn, D-Ga., Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., and Ernest F. Rollings, D-S.C., made their ...
... reactors, an Atomic Energy Commission reactor in Idaho1 or the Chalk River reactor in Ontario, Canada. But with the new plant, to be known as the "Westinghouse -Test Reactor," Westinghouse will have its own testing equipment. The ...
... Reactor can be shut down much more quickly. than the Chernobyl reactor and also has secondary back-up systems to stop a run-away reaction at the plant's core. iiif It is i. impossible for this particular accident to happen in the N Reactor ...
N REACTOR HISTORY. Associated Press. RICHLAND - Here Is a brief history of the N Reactor on tho Hanford nuclear r*1»»1M3" Reactor built, at a cost of $198 million, to produce plufonlum. Ninth " «' *"•""«' P««r( ft |, «' *"•""«' P««r ...