The Transient Reactor Test (TREAT) Facility at INL safely tests nuclear fuel performance in accident conditions to determine their safety limits. ⚛️ Its peak power can reach as high as four nuclear power plants for a fraction of a second! TREAT experiment capabilities lead Nic Woolstenhulme shares more on this national asset. 🎥 ⬇️ Learn more: https://mfc.inl.gov/SitePages/Transient Reactor Test Facility.aspx #Nuclear #NuclearResearch #Energy #NuclearEnergy #NuclearReactor #INL | Idaho National

INL’s Colby Jensen is taking us inside our Transient Reactor Test (TREAT) Facility, where we test nuclear fuels under accident conditions to ensure they perform safely and effectively. ⚛️ When nuclear fuel samples are inserted into TREAT, they are bombarded with neutrons, causing them to heat up rapidly inside of specially designed test devices. These testing devices allow us to create various reactor environments, and we can recreate accident conditions for many types of nuclear reactors. TREAT

In case you missed it: INL’s Transient Reactor Test (TREAT) Facility's latest upgrade allows the system to read a much more detailed set of instructions, resulting in a power history so specific, that in this test, they were able outline the shape of Idaho and the Teton mountain range! ⛰️📈 The instructions guide the reactor to either increase, sustain or decrease power levels to the test reactor. This example was used to demonstrate the precise inputs they can instruct the reactor to follow for

Nation's First Small Modular Reactor Plant to Power Nuclear Research at Idaho National Laboratory