Top Plate To 5-Meter Level
Provenance
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
The top plate of the ANSTO HIFAR reactor extends to the five-meter level. Cold steel and intricate mechanisms define Australia's first nuclear facility, now decommissioned.
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Print datasheet
- Title
- Top Plate To 5-Meter Level
- Series
- ANSTO HIFAR
- Catalogue
- AHF-049
- 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
This cross-sectional view reveals the vertical complexity of the HIFAR reactor containment building, spanning from the top plate down to the fuel storage block at the lowest level.
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.
Print sizes
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