K reactors

K-reactors refer to a series of nuclear reactors developed at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina during the Cold War era, primarily for producing materials like plutonium and tritium for nuclear weapons. These reactors used highly enriched uranium as fuel and operated on a continuous cooling process. They played a key role in national defense but are now shut down and undergoing environmental cleanup due to their radioactive materials and waste. Their design and operation involved complex nuclear science, but essentially, they were powerful machines that used nuclear reactions to produce materials critical for national security.