Flask and Top Plate
Provenance
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Industrial apparatus, a flask and top plate, rests inside the former ANSTO HIFAR reactor. This facility was Australia's first nuclear reactor, operating from 1958 until its decommissioning in 2007.
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Print datasheet
- Title
- Flask and Top Plate
- Series
- ANSTO HIFAR
- Catalogue
- AHF-042
- Process
- Giclée
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
- Paper size
- 290 × 200 mm
- Location
- Lucas Heights, New South Wales, Australia
- Recognised by
- Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards
About this print
Positioned beside a 19.5-tonne rig flask, this view captures the top plate of the HIFAR reactor, where fuel elements and experimental rigs were handled with precision.
Brett Patman
The series
ANSTO HIFAR
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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