Caption: The view through the open door to the UW-Madison Nuclear Reactor Laboratory gives the impression of being in the lab. In fact, the shot was taken from the threshold of the lab, the same view taken by two ABC interns who probed the lab's security measures earlier this year. Built in 1960, the university's 1 megawatt reactor is about 1/3000 the size of a commercial reactor and is used for education, research and educational outreach missions involving other universities, emergency responders, school groups and scouts. The reactor, whose core is surrounded by concrete containment walls, does not produce electricity, but the radiation it produces is used primarily for research to develop medical isotopes, help resolve archeological mysteries and explore the development of future reactors and fuels.
Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart
Date: October 2005
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Caption: Michelle Blanchard, associate director of UW-Madison's Nuclear Reactor Laboratory, stands at the door to the facility with the university's 1 megawatt reactor as a backdrop. Built in 1960, the reactor is about 1/3000 the size of a commercial reactor and is used for education, research and educational outreach missions involving other universities, emergency responders, school groups and scouts. The reactor, whose core is surrounded by concrete containment walls, does not produce electricity, but the radiation it produces is used primarily for research to develop medical isotopes, help resolve archeological mysteries and explore the development of future reactors and fuels.
Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart
Date: October 2005
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