B42 Access Corridor

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/2.8 · 1/1000 · ISO 64
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The B42 Access Corridor winds through the ANSTO HIFAR reactor facility. Concrete walls and exposed pipes define this passage, once vital for operations at Australia's High Flux Australian Reactor, active from 1958 to 2007.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: B42 Access Corridor
Series: ANSTO HIFAR
Catalogue: AHF-002
Process: Giclée
Captured: 7 October 2022
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/2.8
Shutter: 1/1000 s
ISO: 64
Focal length: 14 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 290 × 200 mm
Location: Lucas Heights, New South Wales, Australia
Authenticity: C2PA verified provenance →
Recognised by: Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards

02 LOCATION

Lucas Heights, New South Wales, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

The B42 access corridor runs through the HIFAR reactor facility at ANSTO Lucas Heights. The walls are concrete, the floor a sealed industrial finish, the ceiling crossed by exposed services and pipework. Cable trays run the length of the corridor at head height, the wiring graded by colour and labelled at intervals. The lighting is fluorescent strip, some tubes out, the others holding steady. The corridor turns at the far end into another access run.

HIFAR is the High Flux Australian Reactor, Australia's first nuclear reactor. It went critical at 11:15 pm on 26 January 1958 and shut down at 10:25 am on 30 January 2007, after 49 years and 4 days of operation. The reactor was operated by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission until 1987, then by ANSTO. The facility's access corridors carried the working circulation of the building across its operational life. Phase A decommissioning began in early 2025.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

The personnel entrance at HIFAR, once a secondary access point, now serves as the primary entry as the reactor moves through its structured decommissioning phase. Enclosed walkways and industrial framework define the space, with the white ventilation trunking overhead playing a key role in managing airflow within the facility.

Brett Patman

The series

ANSTO HIFAR

2022 · 49 photographs

At 11:15 pm on Sunday 26 January 1958, Australia Day, the High Flux Australian Reactor went critical for the first time with 11 of 25 fuel elements loaded. The men in the control room had come from Oak Ridge, Chalk River and Harwell. HIFAR was Australia's first nuclear reactor.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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