August 27, 1965
A salute!
Mere days after HFIR first achieved criticality, ORNL Director Alvin M. Weinberg received a letter from Glenn T. Seaborg, Chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. It contained the following:
Dear Al,
Congratulations on achieving initial criticality in the HFIR. You and your colleagues can be proud of the successful engineering in bringing the HFIR into operation. We all look forward to the promising work anticipated from this facility.
The ORNL News Photo - Glenn Seaborg at the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR)
(Photo Credit: ORNL/U.S. Dept. of Energy)
Source: The ORNL News
