Nuclear Radiation Building
Rating
Title
Nuclear Radiation Building
Photographer
State College of Washington . Photo Services
Date
1958~
Description
Later renamed the Nuclear Reactor Center . Built ca. 1959 at a cost of $210,000 ($180,000 reactor , $30,000 fuel) . Ca. 1963 : housed the institution's one-million watt research nuclear reactor . The reactor was a "swimming pool " type , powered by 3,580 grams of highly enriched Uranium 235 . Building contained laboratories for research , and also a smaller sub-critical teaching reactor . Architect : Phillip Keene .
Subject
Research facilities ; Nuclear power plants
Location Depicted
North and Central America--United States--Washington (state)--Whitman county--Pullman
Type
Image
Genre
Photographs
Publisher
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries: https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc
Rights Notes
In copyright. Item is in copyright for 120 years from its date of creation.
Identifier
pc003b10f01_1
Source
Is found in PC 3 , WSU Buildings Photographs https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc/finders/pc3.htm at Washington State University Libraries ' Manuscripts , Archives , and Special Collections (MASC) https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc
Digitization
Original image was scanned at 600 dpi on an Epson Expression 10000 XL scanner and saved as a TIFF file, then converted to jpeg and uploaded into CONTENTdm.
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