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High Flux Isotope Reactor Criticality

United States of America · Science / Nuclear Power. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1965Date range
1Named people
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Chronological records

1965

Alvin Weinberg25 August 1965

Oak Ridge · Science / Nuclear Power

Leads Oak Ridge during the period when HFIR reaches criticality and provides intense thermal-neutron flux.

Names involved

Alvin Weinberg

Provenance

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