Smithsonian Report, 1953. — Aebersold 



Plate 1 



n f R^i° '''"'T P^"^' ^'"°"' '°'^^ °^ *^^ ^'248 fuel-channel openings in the shield of the 

 ?h.\ ^,'^8^ g-'^P'^'^e i-eactor, personnel stand on an elevating platform. In brackets on 

 the wall of the elevator, in front of the two men, can be seen a horizontal bundle of 10-foot 

 lengths of hght steel polesused as "push rods." As a rod is inserted into a channel, 

 another rod is threaded to it, increasing its length to permit traversing the length of the 



