Construction of fission housing for Sodium Reactor Experiment reactor
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Valley Times Photo Collection
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This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Title supplied by cataloger. This reactor was part of the Sodium Reactor Experiment, a nuclear power plant built by Atomics International of North American Aviation at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, in the Santa Susana Mountains. The reactor was active from 1957 to 1964. Photograph caption dated May 10, 1956 reads, "Fission housing lowered into place. Container to house core, or component in which nuclear fission takes place to produse 20,000 kilowatts of heat, is lowered into position at Sodium Reactor Experiment site in Santa Susana Mountains near Canoga Park. Reactor is part of program to develop commercial power from atomic energy."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Santa Susana Field Laboratory (Calif.) North American Aviation.--Atomics International Division Nuclear power plants--California Nuclear power plants--California--Design and construction Mountains--California, Southern Santa Susana Mountains (Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs
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