The High-Flux Isotope Reactor

The High-Flux Isotope Reactor
The High-Flux Isotope Reactor Technicians stand above the High-Flux Isotope Reactor at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. The Department of Energy is currently refining the process that would use this reactor to create Pu-238 for the first time since the late 1980s. Full production is expected to begin in 2015. Department of Energy