Hot case: a national lab is revisiting the past to find new methods of putting uranium into reactors.(Feature focus: nuclear power)

From: Mechanical Engineering-CIME | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: Winters, Jeffrey | Copyright information

OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY is one of the crown jewels of the national nuclear infrastructure. It is here, some 60 years ago, that the world's first continuously operated reactor went critical. Enriched uranium processed at the lab fueled an atomic bomb dropped on Japan And the lab also was instrumental in developing portable nuclear reactors for the Army and radioisotope power for deep space probes.

Even so, things aren't all as up-to-date as one might imagine. Take t...

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