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10-11-2006 – Sydney Opal reactor at full power : On November 3rd, at 11:45 a.m. local time (9:45 p.m. of november 2nd, Argentine time) the OPAL reactor reached its full design power of 20 MW for the first time, operated by the Australian operating team. <\/p>\n

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The photograph shows the pool when the reactor achieved half its full power, evidenced by the emission of bluish “Cerenkov radiation”<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"10-11-2006 – Sydney Opal reactor at full power : On November 3rd, at 11:45 a.m. local time (9:45 p.m. of november 2nd, Argentine time) the OPAL reactor reached its full design power of 20 MW for the first time, operated by the Australian operating team.   \u00a0 \u00a0 On November 3rd, at 11:45 a.m. local… View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-archive"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n10-11-2006 - Sydney Opal reactor at full power | INVAP<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.invap.com.ar\/en\/10-11-2006-sydney-opal-reactor-at-full-power\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"10-11-2006 - Sydney Opal reactor at full power | INVAP\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"10-11-2006 – Sydney Opal reactor at full power : On November 3rd, at 11:45 a.m. local time (9:45 p.m. of november 2nd, Argentine time) the OPAL reactor reached its full design power of 20 MW for the first time, operated by the Australian operating team.   \u00a0 \u00a0 On November 3rd, at 11:45 a.m. local... 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