View of the high bay area of the High Flux Isotope Reactor from the main control room.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s High Flux Isotope Reactor returned to action this morning and achieved full power (85 megawatts) shortly after noon. The research reactor underwent major maintenance and upgrades during the 80-day outage — the longest of the year — and workers in the lab’s reactors division apparently achieved most if not all of the desired activities. Continue reading