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Nuclear Reactor Wall Charts (bibliodyssey.blogspot.com)
64 points by kqr2 on Dec 20, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 10 comments


Reminds me of Stephen Biesty's books. http://amzn.com/0590738704 Blew my mind as a kid. Come to think of it, my nephew needs an xmas present.


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NEI has generously provided permission to share the drawings free-of-charge at a resolution consistent with print-out at roughly 11"x17", which is very usable "for educational purposes," e.g., in the classroom. NEI retains the rights to higher resolution images, and marketing thereof.

With this in mind I collected hard copies of the charts for 100+ reactors and have had them digitized. The University of New Mexico set up the website, and will be repository for the 40+ hard-copy charts I had in my personal collection.

The reactor diagrams are copyright Nuclear Engineering International magazine. High-resolution scans, and poster prints, are available for sale. For more information or a quotation contact wdal at neimagazine dot com.

BTW -- I, too, wish someone had done such drawings for Chernobyl, the Russian VVER, and a few other unique designs. Some of the reactor vendors have e-pictures of their current offerings.


P.S. Article in Wired this morning http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1006656



Wow, I really want to make a poster of this as a gift. Do you think I could take this file to Kinkos and have them make a poster of it?


Looking at the Original size, there is too much JPEG compression for it to be usable for print. Some needs to upload a document format of this (PDF or otherwise) or a higher-resolution image.


Actually, as mentioned in the article, the original pdfs are from:

http://econtent.unm.edu/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=%2Fnuceng


It would be great if there was one for Chernobyl.


This is the best diagram I could find of the RBMK-1000 design:

http://www.neimagazine.com/journals/Power/NEI/March_2006/att...


Not to criticize this one, but it's interesting to see the difference between a diagram like this one and the ones linked. Definitely gives me an appreciation of technical illustrators that can make something that preserves information and looks impressive.




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