X-10 Graphite Reactor. Workers removing natural uranium fuel slugs from a canal of water beneath the X-10 Graphite Reactor for the last time. This was the world's first reactor designed and built for continuous operation. It was commissioned as part of the Manhattan Project,the US nuclear weapons development program during World War II,and went into operation in 1943. Photographed at what is now the Atomic Energy Commission's Oak Ridge National Laboratory,Tennessee,USA,circa 1967 | |
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