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Transuranic elements and the high‐flux isotope reactor

JUN 01, 1967

A high‐flux isotope reactor, designed and built at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, will produce 1 g/yr of

{Cf}^{252}

and appreciable amounts of other transuranic isotopes. Along with the reactor, a complex processing and extraction plant and a laboratory for investigating these elements make a unique facility for transuranic research.

DOI: 10.1063/1.3034353

Alvin Weinberg

A TRANSURANIC‐ELEMENTS research and production facility is being completed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Its three principal components are a High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR), an elaborate radiochemical processing plant called TRU and a transuranic research laboratory. Built over the past eight years at a cost of more than $24.5 million, this facility provides scientists from many different institutions with tools to advance understanding of the chemistry and nuclear physics of the transuranics and also to advance the technology of highflux reactors.

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Alvin Weinberg, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

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