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Show Merrill reactor tank water to cool TRini There's a 25-foot-deep circular "swimming pool" being installed in the basement of the University Merrill Engineering Building, but it's only eight feet wide. Actually, "swimming pool" is the term used by scientists to describe a "reactor tank." The water will be used to cool the new "TRIGA" nuclear reactor which soon will be located at the bottom of the tank, according to Dr. Gary M. San-dquist, San-dquist, director of the nuclear engineering program of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Work on the 250,000-watt reactor which will ultimately be summer of 1973 ') approval of the 'J"11 i Ursity noV?, reactor. a fii The excavation of , . rbystuden, and shovels, since the 2 inaccessible equipment. The dirt wa'a ln 55-gallon druim Dr- Sandquist says factor will be used ,7' device and ,0 produc8 aiumic isotopes vital i University Medic Presently, many isotopes mustbe0wi ; other distant reactor siteSi half-life' or effective : many isotopes is too short such importation feasible ' For example, RourinelBis for bone canning. Its haK-Sfe 5 110 minutes, far too short Dr! it to be brought in from outsit Utah. But with the newrtri Flourine 18 will be produced V- made available in suhr quantities to hospital resey' Jim Byrne, a senior re operator, emphasized that fe will be little possibility ol ii 5 plosion or accident because oh "inherent safety factor" in special "temperature regtis: fuel which will power the k |