Oak Ridge National Laboratory's High Flux Isotope Reactor (IMAGE)

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory's High Flux Isotope Reactor

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Reactor operators submerge HFIR’s 30,000-pound Q-ball cask in the reactor pool in preparation to safely transport radioactive material from HFIR’s Devaney Bay to 

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Genevieve Martin/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy

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