Published In:
Ann Arbor News, September 8, 1968
Caption:
Derling-Tseng, U-M research associate from Formosa (Nationalist China), operates equipment to make electron spin resonance measurements of radiation damage at Phoenix Memorial Laboratory Building. Radiation, such as neutrons can produce changes in material characteristics either by changing the chemical composition or by changing the structure. Knowledge of these changes is necessary to anticipate and compensate for damage which may occur in devices which operate in intense sources of radiation such as reactors. The black discs at right are part of a large magnet.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, September 8, 1968
Caption:
The Ford Nuclear Reactor in the Phoenix Memorial Laboratory on the North Campus is the "heart" of nuclear engineering research at the U-M. It also provides radioactive materials for research projects and practical uses in medicine, public health, the biological sciences, nuclear physics, and other fields, in addition to engineering. The reactor is now being operated on a 24-hour-a-day basis at two megawatts (2,000,000 watts). It is the only "swimming pool" type reactor in the state.