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NASA's Radiation Research

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Technician checks for contamination with cutie pie
Technician washes clothing
Technicians manipulate shim safety control rod
Technicians on the walkway
Technicians wheel large thimble through truck door
Technicians with cutie pie radiation detector
Technicians work inside the thimble
Tim Polich and Keith Peecook
Tours given to students and families
Two men on lily pad guide crane
Two Plum Brook employees use crane
View from inside the hot laboratory
View into hot laboratory
Worker spray paints quadrant wall
Abe Silverstein
Atomic Energy Commission, Abe Silverstein
Bill Fecych and Don Johnson in control room in 1959.
Bill Fecych shutting down reactor at Plum Brook
Bill Kortier explains reactor to press
Blackboard graffiti : RIF (reduction in force)
Board with data from dosimeters
Bob Oldrieve using manipulator arms
Calendar left open in reactor building
Chart listing experiments to be irradiated each cycle
Congressman Mosher and Ross Braig tour
Control rods for Mock-Up Reactor
Crews excavate a hole in the ground
Demonstration of Plum Brook's reactor core
Diagram of an experiment
Diagram showing numerous facilities of core
Diagram showing two insertion tables in Quadrant C
Divers work to clear submerged water pumps
Edward Sharpe at Plum Brook groundbreaking ceremony
Hap Johnson and Brad Barkley
Hap Johnson and H. Brock Barkley examine aluminum rabbit
Harold Geisler takes Plum Brook reactor critical
HB-2 Cryogenic Experiment
Hot laboratory safe work area
Inside the containment vessel
Jack Crooks and Jerold Hatton inside reactor tank
James Webb and Abe Silverstein
John Hire adjusts instrument console
Johnny Miller and Earl Boitel in experiment control room
Just outside the containment vessel airlock
Lily pad area atop reactor pressure vessel
Map showing Plum Brook's location relative to Lake Erie and other cities.
Mock-Up Reactor
MUR control room
MUR control room
MUR core as seen from the control room
Outside of the containment vessel
Physicist at NASA Lewis
Plum Brook chemistry lab in 1961
Plum Brook reactor assembly
Plum Brook reactor control room
Plum Brook reactor primary building
Plum Brook reactor's research facilities and support buildings
Plum Brook representative
Plum Brook Station
Plum Brook support buildings and laboratories
Plum Brook's Lake Erie pumping station
Pressure tank delivered by truck
Pressure tank in place
Pressure tank ready to be lowered
Pressure tank shipped via railway
Reactor after 1973
Reactor Core Area
Reactor facility almost thirty years after its shutdown
Remote Area Monitoring System (RAMS) panel
Reporters on tour
Representative explaining model of reactor
Right side of control panel
Technician Allen Larkins and engineer David Willinger in metallurgical laboratory