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Original – Workers load uranium slugs into the X-10 Graphite Reactor's concrete face. Built as part of the Manhattan Project, X-10 was the first-ever production reactor, and acted as a proof of concept for the reactors that would produce materials for the first nuclear bombs.
Reason
The image shows 2 workers in 1943 loading the second ever nuclear reactor. The image is a little cluttered around the edges, but it is historically significant. I'm not a photography guru by any means, nor am I a regular at FPC so I'm not the best person to judge the technical quality of the image, but my non-expert opinion is that it's excellent.
Articles in which this image appears
X-10 Graphite Reactor, Manhattan Project, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Engineering and technology/Others
Creator
Ed Westcott

Promoted File:X10 Reactor Face.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 19:16, 18 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]