Reactor Collection

Fusion research, tokamak device
Nuclear fusion research. Cutaway computer artwork of the planned ITER tokamak device. It will be the first full scale fusion device to produce energy at a level of an electricity-producing power

Scientist Working In A Fusion Reactor F003 / 6438
Scientist Working In A Fusion Reactor

Scientists Inside A Fusion Reactor

View over the city of Huy in Belgium and Meuse River to the distant nuclear power station of Tihange

Calder Hall Atomic Power Station, Cumbria, the first power station in the world to generate electricity on an industrial scale from nuclear energy, which opened in 1956

Industry Industrial Power Station 1960 1960s
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Foundations of Hunterston Power Station, Ayrshire, Scotland
A view of the turbine hall foundations of Hunterston Power Station, Ayrshire, Scotland, showing the first reactor building in the background

The huge Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactor at the Windscale nuclear power plant, Cumbria, England. Date: May 1962

Boeing WC-135B Constant Phoenix 61-2666
United States Air Force - Boeing WC-135B Constant Phoenix 61-2666 (msn 18342) at McCleelan Air Force Base. Designated Constant Phoenix to collect atmospheric samples for the purpose of detecting

United States Air Force Boeing WC-135B 61-2666 (msn 18342) at McCleelan Air Force Base. Boeing C-135B-BN Stratolifter (Boeing 717-185)

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Cattle graze near the Cattenom Nuclear Power Plant located in the Cattenom commune along the Moselle River in France. Date: 31/05/2006

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Cattle graze near the Cattenom Nuclear Power Plant located in the Cattenom commune along the Moselle River in France. Date: 31/05/2006

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The Cattenom Nuclear Power Plant located in the Cattenom commune along the Moselle River in France. Date: 31/05/2006

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The Cattenom Nuclear Power Plant located in the Cattenom commune along the Moselle River in France. Date: 31/05/2006

Taiwan: Atomic reactor at National Tsinghua University in Taiwan, 1962 (photo)
6009735 Taiwan: Atomic reactor at National Tsinghua University in Taiwan, 1962 (photo) by Chinese Photographer, (20th Century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Illustration from Tractatus de Homine by Rene Descartes, 1664 (litho)
LSE2648335 Illustration from Tractatus de Homine by Rene Descartes, 1664 (litho) by French School, (17th century); Private Collection; Photo eLeonard de Selva; French, out of copyright

Reactor hall: BOR-60 fast breeder nuclear reactor
Fast breeder reactor. Reactor hall of the BOR-60 fast breeder nuclear reactor in Dimitrovgrad, Russia. Fast breeder reactor cores use plutonium fuel surrounded by uranium; they are cooled by molten

Nuclear reactor of Sizewell B power station
Pressurised water reactor (PWR) at Sizewell B nuclear power station. The reactor (grey, at lower centre) uses enriched uranium as a fuel. Energy is released as the atomic nuclei split (fission)

NUCLEAR REACTOR, 1942. An artists sketch of the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reactor, operated in Chicago, December 2, 1942

Convair NB-36H flying testbed for an airborne nuclear reactor

ITER Reaction vessel C018 / 3801
Artists concept view of the interior of the ITER reaction vessel. Nuclear fusion involves creating a plasma of superheated gas to temperatures of more than 200 million degrees C

ITER Fusion Research Reactor C016 / 9201
Artists concept view of the interior of the ITER reaction vessel. Nuclear fusion involves creating a plasma of superheated gas to temperatures of more than 200 million degrees C

Fusion reactor, artwork C016 / 7497
Fusion reactor. Computer artwork of a reactor in which hydrogen fusion is taking place. Nuclear fusion is the joining (fusing) of light elements to form heavier elements

Industrial reactor vessels and piping
Chemical industry. A view looking upward at reactor vessels and piping at a chemical plant. Photographed at Novokuznetsk, Russia

Fusion reactor, conceptual image C013 / 5944
Fusion reactor, conceptual image. Computer artwork representing a reactor in which hydrogen fusion is taking place. Nuclear fusion is the joining (fusing) of light elements to form heavier elements

Bushehr nuclear power station, Iran
Iranian nuclear power. Interior of the reactor containment building of the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran. Hanging from the ceiling is a fuel rod assembly

Fluid catalytic cracker at an oil refiner C016 / 2765
Oil. Towers of a fluid catalytic cracking plant at an oil refinery. Catalytic cracking is the process by which crude oil is refined into components of different mass, or fractions

Sizewell B view from RSPB Island Mere Hide Suffolk

Studying Liquid Flow
Scientific Assistant G. Dimmick, studying liquid flow down surfaces, in connection with the S.G.H.W. reactor programme, Winfrith Atomic Energy Establishment. Date: 1960s

Nuclear Computer 1973
Inspection of nuclear reactor fuel element components at Springfields Laboratories : Close-up of the computerised measurement of the grids. Date: 1973

Fusion research, levitated diopole device
Nuclear fusion research. Levitated dipole experiment (LDX) device (cryostat) being constructed at the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Columbia University, USA

Nuclear power station training model
A model of a nuclear reactor at the training center of the Kola nuclear power plant, Polyarnye Zori

Bussard ramjet spacecraft, artwork

First nuclear power station. View of the reactor hall of the Obninsk nuclear power plant near Moscow. At the centre is the top of the AM-1 reactor (AM = Atom Mirny, peaceful atom )

Reactor energy core

Nuclear fusion reactor
Conceptual image. Inside the complex high tech engineered centre of a Nuclear Fusion Reactor. High temperature Plasma swirls around the Core inside the magnetic holding bottle

Beloyarsk nuclear reactor construction
Fast breeder reactor. Construction work underway on the BN-800 reactor at the Beloyarsk nuclear power plant. The BN-800 is a fast-breeder class reactor that uses highly-enriched uranium as a fuel

A mockup of a nuclear reactor at the Sellafield visitor centre at Sellafield nuclear power station, cumbria
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