Research tower

A research tower is a tower that is mainly used for scientific experiments . These include, for example, drop towers for creating short-term weightlessness such as the Bremen drop tower .

An unusual research tower was the BREN Tower in Nevada , which carried an unshielded reactor to simulate the radiation effects of the atomic bomb explosions in Hiroshima .

Measurement towers do not fall into this category .

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