Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/X-10 Reactor

X-10 Reactor

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Original – Workers load uranium slugs into the X-10 Graphite Reactor's concrete face. Built as part of the Manhattan Project, X-10 was the first-ever production reactor, and acted as a proof of concept for the reactors that would produce materials for the first nuclear bombs.

Reason

The image shows 2 workers in 1943 loading the second ever nuclear reactor. The image is a little cluttered around the edges, but it is historically significant. I'm not a photography guru by any means, nor am I a regular at FPC so I'm not the best person to judge the technical quality of the image, but my non-expert opinion is that it's excellent.

Articles in which this image appears

X-10 Graphite Reactor, Manhattan Project, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Engineering and technology/Others

Creator

Ed Westcott

• Support as nominator --James086^Talk 18:42, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
• Strong Support This is a very iconic and valuable photograph of the X-10 reactor, and although there are minor flaws that might be cloned out, even in it's current state it's VERY feature-able. — raekyt 23:28, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
• Support — Stigmatella aurantiaca (talk) 11:39, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
• Support - Considerable EV. ceranthor 21:31, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
• Support as is. But, if I were to clone out four white spots that seem definitely to be on the negative--the three on the tall dark metal thing that goes up the left hand wall, and the one on the right next to hole 3455--would anyone object to my uploading that over the top? There are other spots, of course, but those are the most prominent. Chick Bowen 22:18, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
• Support - High EV. --LlamaAl (talk) 01:03, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
• Supposert per Raeky. JJ Harrison (talk) 07:12, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
  • "Suppose?" lol. — raekyt 01:26, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
    • Heh, I was very tired after a long drive. :) JJ Harrison (talk) 03:01, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Promoted File:X10 Reactor Face.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 19:16, 18 February 2013 (UTC)