Workers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee have shipped the old reactor vessel from the Low Intensity Test Reactor, also known as Building 3005, to Utah for disposal, the agency said Tuesday.
Crews loaded the 37,600-pound, 30-foot-long vessel onto a truck last week and shipped it to Clive, Utah, for final disposition, DOE’s Office of Environmental Management said in a Tuesday press release. A DOE spokesperson confirmed to Exchange Monitor the vessel was sent to the EnergySolutions site in Clive.
DOE’s Amentum-led United Cleanup Oak Ridge finished tearing down the reactor, which was built in 1949 and ran until 1968, last September. The pit from which the vessel was removed has been backfilled, according to DOE.
