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The Forschungsreaktor 2 (FR2) () was the second nuclear reactor built in and by "50 Jahre Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe"
Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft, Pressemitteilung, 06.07.2006. (In German) , the reactor core is contained, and the auxiliary buildings have been demolished or are being used for non-nuclear research activities, mostly in micro process engineering, which uses manufacturing technologies that originated from mechanical microstructuring processes that had been developed in the context of nuclear technologies (
The Forschungsreaktor 2 (FR2) () was the second nuclear reactor built in and by Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...
after restrictions on nuclear research imposed as a result of the Second World War
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
were lifted in 1955. Construction began in 1957 in Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen/ BW. The organization charged with the project evolved into the ''Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe (KfK)'' (Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Centre), which in turn evolved into the present day Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; ) is both a German public research university in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, and a research center of the Helmholtz Association.
KIT was created in 2009 when the University of Karlsruhe (), founde ...
(KIT).
FR2 started up on December 12, 1962, and ceased operation in December 1981.Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft, Pressemitteilung, 06.07.2006. (In German) , the reactor core is contained, and the auxiliary buildings have been demolished or are being used for non-nuclear research activities, mostly in micro process engineering, which uses manufacturing technologies that originated from mechanical microstructuring processes that had been developed in the context of nuclear technologies (
isotope separation
Isotope separation is the process of concentrating specific isotopes of a chemical element by removing other isotopes. The use of the nuclides produced is varied. The largest variety is used in research (e.g. in chemistry where atoms of "marker" n ...
).
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