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X10 Graphite Reactor

Original - Workers load uranium slugs into the X-10 Graphite Reactor's concrete face.

I'm not an expert on images by any means, but this appears to be of high quality, especially considering it was taken in 1943. The image is historically significant because the reactor was a proof of concept for the reactors that made the Fat Man bomb. The reactor is open for tours today, so a higher quality, colour image could be taken of it but the workers here are genuinely doing the job of inserting uranium. Is that enough reason to overlook the black and white and low quality (relative to a modern camera)?

Articles this image appears in

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

Creator

Ed Westcott

Suggested by

James086^Talk 07:55, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

Comments

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