Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor January 27 th 2011 A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTA

1. Atominstitut’s Prater ReactorJanuary 27th 2011A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTA

2. Prater’s Atominstitut Triga Reactor • The reactor is a 250 kWth Triga reactor aimed at science and training, • It can achieve pulses one thousand time more powerful although its main operating mode is at constant power, • It has been operating since 1962 • It participates in many international programs including education, science,...

3. Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor – January 27th 2011A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTA Professor Helmut Boeck welcomes us!

4. Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor – January 27th 2011A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTA And starts immediately with preliminary explanations.

5. Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor – January 27th 2011A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTA It is always useful to give a first overview...

6. Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor – January 27th 2011A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTA ... Particularly for such a group!

7. Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor – January 27th 2011A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTA The explanations are detailed, but... Let’s go!

8. Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor – January 27th 2011A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTA On top of the reactor, left on operation specially for us (Many thanks!)

9. Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor – January 27th 2011A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTA A glance at the pool!...

10. Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor – January 27th 2011A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTA Listening to Helmut’s explanations is even more interesting!

11. Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor – January 27th 2011A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTA The power and safety control rods

12. Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor – January 27th 2011A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTA Too many things ot look at?

13. Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor – January 27th 2011A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTA The pool and some scanning experimental equipments

14. Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor – January 27th 2011A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTA Showing us the fuel elements... (each worth 30 000 Euros)

15. Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor – January 27th 2011A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTA Helmut shows us some students experiments (Direct irradiation down the rope!)

16. Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor – January 27th 2011A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTA Always with enthusiastic explanations

17. Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor – January 27th 2011A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTA Giving us plenty of details

18. Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor – January 27th 2011A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTA Answering the questions,...

19. Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor – January 27th 2011A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTA Hands on demonstration!

20. Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor – January 27th 2011A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTA The Cerenkov effect (Bremsstrahlung)

21. Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor – January 27th 2011A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTA Same with a long exposure (which shows clearly the fuel pattern)

22. Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor – January 27th 2011A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTA We are also getting explanations about the technical details of the scanning experiment

23. Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor – January 27th 2011A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTA Which results are kindly shown to us by the physicist in charge of the experiment

24. Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor – January 27th 2011A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTA The reactor pool after shut down

25. Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor – January 27th 2011A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTA At the control room...

26. Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor – January 27th 2011A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTA Again with plenty of explanations!

27. Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor – January 27th 2011A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTA The reactor “reports”, very similar to those used at power plants by the IAEA safeguards inspectors

28. Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor – January 27th 2011A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTA Full attention is given to Professor Helmut Boeck

29. Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor – January 27th 2011A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTA The fuel pattern at the reactor

30. Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor – January 27th 2011A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTA At the bottom of the reactor, some more details!

31. Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor – January 27th 2011A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTA The experimental activities are also related to the beams generated

32. Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor – January 27th 2011A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTA How to measure samples automatically, a cost effective solution developed at Prater’s reactor

33. Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor – January 27th 2011A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTA Outer view of the reactor

34. Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor – January 27th 2011A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTA Closer look at it!

35. Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor – January 27th 2011A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTA Some more questions!

36. Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor – January 27th 2011A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTA IAEA surveillance equipment. The reactor is also a very good training opportunity for the IAEA.

37. Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor – January 27th 2011A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTA High-tech beam experiment being set-up.

38. Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor – January 27th 2011A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTA The reactor is very close to the neighbourhood...

39. Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor – January 27th 2011A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTA Environmental potential impacts are continuously monitored

40. Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor – January 27th 2011A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTA The reactor cooling devices pipes

41. Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor – January 27th 2011A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTA A chance to look at everything!

42. Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor – January 27th 2011A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTA Application of irradiations out of the main stream

43. Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor – January 27th 2011A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTA Full attention is devoted to the extensive knowledge sharing

44. Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor – January 27th 2011A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTA Common radioactive material includes old Austrian style oven bricks

45. Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor – January 27th 2011A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTA A nice collection!

46. Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor – January 27th 2011A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTA The group at whole

47. Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor – January 27th 2011A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTA Many thanks to Professor Helmut Boeck for this wonderful visit!Many thanks to all the participants!

48. Some useful links • The Reactor: http://www.ati.ac.at/index.php?id=startseite • The University: http://www.tuwien.ac.at/ • The OeKTG: http://www.oektg.at • The SFEN-GTA: http://sfen.srweb.org • The SFEN: http://www.sfen.fr