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Plum Brook Station

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Plum Brook Station, now known as Neil Armstrong Test Facility, is located in Sandusky, Ohio, 50 miles west of the NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.

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Bill Fecych shutting down reactor at Plum Brook
A 100-kilowatt wind turbine
Edward Sharpe at Plum Brook groundbreaking ceremony
Harold Geisler takes Plum Brook reactor critical
Bill Kortier explains reactor to press
The Space Power Facility
Centaur Standard Shroud at SPF Plum Brook
Delta III Rocket Stage Undergoes Testing
Hydrogen Tank
Plum Brook: J1-Site
Plum Brook Aerial View
Board with data from dosimeters
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
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
Atomic Energy Commission, Abe Silverstein
Bill Fecych and Don Johnson in control room in 1959.
Blackboard graffiti : RIF (reduction in force)
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
Hap Johnson and Brad Barkley
Hap Johnson and H. Brock Barkley examine aluminum rabbit
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
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
Plum Brook chemistry lab in 1961
Plum Brook reactor assembly
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
Reactor after 1973
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
Technicians work inside the thimble
Johnny Miller and Earl Boitel in experiment control room
Plum Brook reactor control room
Pressure tank shipped via railway
Technician Allen Larkins and engineer David Willinger in metallurgical laboratory
Skylab Shroud in Plum Brook Space Power Facility
Plum Brook Station 42-Inch Hypersonic Tunnel Facility
Plum Brook Station 42-Inch Hypersonic Tunnel Facility
Plum Brook Station 42-Inch Hypersonic Tunnel Facility
Plum Brook Station 42-Inch Hypersonic Tunnel Facility
Plum Brook Station 42-Inch Hypersonic Tunnel Facility
Plum Brook Station 42-Inch Hypersonic Tunnel Facility
Glenn Research Center Plum Brook Station