On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 23:00:08 -0600 (Central Standard Time), david frenkel
wrote:

>I don't know how this thread started but I did contract work at the INEL in
>1990.  It has numerous achievements including those mentioned.  The biggest
>achievement though was the development of the one and only nuclear
>jet engine which is on display somewhere on 'the site'.   I wouldn't wonder
>on to the INEL without a giger counter,
>the place is full of radioactive material.

You do not even have to go onto 'the site',  Both of the Nuclear Jet Engines are
on display at EBR1 (the first Breeder reactor) about 1/2 mile from the main
highway.  The are located on one side of the Visitors Parking Lot.  You can
touch them if you want.  If you go into the EBR1 building, you can climb through
the old reactor vessel.  It feels really weird to Look out through the 36" of lead
glass from inside!


Chuck Todd