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NASA Center: Glenn Research Center - Plum Brook Facility
Image # : C-1956-42673
Date : 1956

Title

Plum Brook reactor primary building

Full Description

A 1956 artist's schematic of Plum Brook reactor primary buildings with a cutaway of the containment vessel revealing the quadrants, the reactor pressure tank, and the lily pad. It was called the lily pad because, with water in the quadrants, the circular center resembled "a lily pad floating on water."

Keywords

Plum Brook research reactor containment vessel quadrants lily pad

Subject Category

Radiation Research

Reference Numbers

  • Center: GRC
  • Facility: PBF
  • Center Number: C-1956-42673
  • GRIN DataBase Number: GPN-2009-00004

Source Information

  • Creator/Photographer: NASA
  • Original Source: Digital

Image Information ( Copyright Notification )

ResolutionFormatWidth
(Pixels)		Height
(Pixels)		Size
(KBytes)
Thumbnail JPEG 78 59 15
Small JPEG 622 474 170
Medium JPEG 1296 988 704
Large JPEG 2592 1976 3,052

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