The Department of Energy’s cleanup contractor at its Idaho site, CH2M-WG, Idaho, LLC, continues to make progress in the demolition of the site’s Experimental Breeder Reactor-II. Decontamination and decommissioning crews recently sliced a 48-foot-long, 103,000-pound steam drum tank into three portions, which were dropped in the basement of the boiler building for permanent disposal, according to the a press release from the company. The scheduled four-month demolition of the building began Oct 1.
Experimental Breeder Reactor-II began operations in 1961 and shut down in 1994. Earlier this year, crews demolished several structures, removed the reactor’s sodium coolant, and encapsulated the reactor in concrete.
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