Fast Flux Nuclear Test Facility

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Stock #:130135
Type: Postcard
Era: Chrome
City: Sunnyside
State: Washington (WA)
County: Yakima
Publisher: Hanford Engineering Development Laboratory
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

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This one of a kind sodium-cooled test reactor is being constructed 7 miles north of Richland, Washington, on the Hanford Project. When operational in 1979 it will test fuels, materials and components for breeder reactors - an advanced type of nuclear power plant. Westinghouse Hanford Company, a subsidiary of Westinghouse Electric Corporation, is under contract to the Energy research and Development Administration for design, construction and operation of this Facility.

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