Used slugs, ejected from the pile after their fuel value has diminished, are kept in buckets at the bottom of a 20-foot deep water-filled canal. Their intense radioactivity makes the water around them glow.
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Date: 1952-02
Location: Oak Ridge, US
Physical Dimensions: B/W PRINT
Subject Keywords: Atomic Energy, Oak Ridge, Reactors, Us, Centers, 1950s