Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor

January 27th 2011

A visit offered by the

OeKTG and SFEN-GTA

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,...

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

Professor Helmut Boeck welcomes us!

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

And starts immediately with preliminary explanations.

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

It is always useful to give a first overview...

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

... Particularly for such a group!

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

The explanations are detailed, but... Let’s go!

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!)

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

A glance at the pool!...

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

Listening to Helmut’s explanations is even more interesting!

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

The power and safety control rods

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

Too many things ot look at?

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

The pool and some scanning experimental equipments

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)

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!)

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

Always with enthusiastic explanations

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

Giving us plenty of details

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

Answering the questions,...

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

Hands on demonstration!

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

The Cerenkov effect (Bremsstrahlung)

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)

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

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

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

The reactor pool after shut down

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

At the control room...

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

Again with plenty of explanations!

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

by the IAEA safeguards inspectors

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

Full attention is given to Professor Helmut Boeck

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

The fuel pattern at the reactor

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

At the bottom of the reactor, some more details!

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

Atominstitut’s Prater Reactor – January 27th 2011A visit offered by the OeKTG and SFEN-GTAHow to measure samples automatically, a cost effective solution

developed at Prater’s reactor

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

Outer view of the reactor

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

Closer look at it!

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

Some more questions!

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.

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

High-tech beam experiment being set-up.

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

The reactor is very close to the neighbourhood...

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

Environmental potential impacts are continuously monitored

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

The reactor cooling devices pipes

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

A chance to look at everything!

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

Application of irradiations out of the main stream

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

Full attention is devoted to the extensive knowledge sharing

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

Common radioactive material includes old Austrian style oven bricks

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

A nice collection!

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

The group at whole

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

Many thanks to all the participants!

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