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Particle and nuclear

Life after the leak: lessons from the closure of the High Flux Beam Reactor

05 Oct 2022 Robert P Crease

Why did a tiny leak bring down a hugely successful research reactor 25 years ago? Robert P Crease reveals the lessons we can learn

The Brookhaven High Flux Beam Reactor (HFBR)
Not forgotten The Brookhaven High Flux Beam Reactor (HFBR) was decommissioned on 15 November 1997. (Courtesy: Brookhaven National Laboratory)
In 1997, exactly a quarter of a century ago, a productive scientific research reactor at Brookhaven

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Robert P Crease is a professor in the Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, US and writes the monthly Critical Point column for Physics World, robertpcrease.com, e-mail robert.crease@stonybrook.edu. His latest book is The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory
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