X-10 Graphite Reactor
The X-10 Graphite Reactor is a decommissioned nuclear reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Formerly known as the Clinton Pile and X-10 Pile, it was the world's second artificial nuclear reactor and the first intended for continuous operation.
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- Description: world’s second artificial nuclear reactor and the first reactor designed and built for continuous operation
- Also known as: “Clinton Pile”, “Graphite Reactor”, “ORNL Graphite Reactor”, “X-10 Graphite Reactor Facility (Bldg. 3001)”, “X-10 Pile”, and “X-10 Reactor”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Multiprogram Research Facility and Spallation Neutron Source.
Multiprogram Research Facility
Office
The Multiprogram Research Facility is a facility at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. It is used by the U.S. National Security Agency to design and build supercomputers for cryptanalysis and other classified projects. Multiprogram Research Facility is situated 1,900 feet northeast of X-10 Graphite Reactor.
Spallation Neutron Source
Research institute
The Spallation Neutron Source is an accelerator-based neutron source facility in the U.S. that provides the most intense pulsed neutron beams in the world for scientific research and industrial development. Spallation Neutron Source is situated 2 miles northeast of X-10 Graphite Reactor.
X-10 Graphite Reactor
- Categories: nuclear reactor and building
- Location: Roane, Tennessee, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
35.92809° or 35° 55′ 41″ north
Longitude
-84.31755° or 84° 19′ 3″ west
Open location code
867QWMHJ+6X
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
building=yes
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“X-10 Graphite Reactor” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مفاعل جرافيت X-١٠ النووي”
- Arabic: “مفاعل جرافيت X-10 النووي”
- Chinese: “X-10石墨反应堆”
- Chinese: “X-10石墨反應堆”
- Chinese: “X-10石墨反應爐”
- Chinese: “X-10石墨堆”
- Czech: “Grafitový reaktor X-10”
- French: “Réacteur graphite X-10”
- Galician: “Reactor de grafito X-10”
- Indonesian: “Reaktor Grafit X-10”
- Japanese: “X-10黒鉛炉”
- Korean: “X-10 흑연 원자로”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “X-10”
- Norwegian: “X-10”
- Persian: “رآکتور گرافیت ایکس-۱۰”
- Portuguese: “Reator de Grafite X-10”
- Romanian: “Reactorul cu grafit X-10”
- Russian: “Графитовый реактор X-10”
- Spanish: “Reactor de Grafito X 10”
- Spanish: “Reactor de grafito X-10”
- Spanish: “Reactor de Grafito X-10”
- Ukrainian: “Графітовий реактор X-10”
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Highlights include Bethel Cemetery and Currier Cemetery.
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