More than 50 years after the plant was decommissioned, the building that housed the reactor is scheduled for demolition.
Many of the nuclear-power components of the old SM-1A are encased in concrete in the building that still stands at Fort Greely.
On Tuesday, the head of a Corps of Engineers team in charge of the dismantling and decommissioning project gave a tour of the old power plant for a group of state and federal elected officials’ staff. That led the Corps’ team to reconsider how to cover the plant with the enclosure, and the vapor containment or VC structure that towers over facility.
“So this means that the community on base will see some demolition activity that we originally hadn’t planned to do this year,” she said in an interview after the tour. The materials being removed and taken off-site are classified as low-level radioactive waste. But initially, some of the waste will be inert, she added.
“So it’ll be a truck carrying what we call an intermodal container,” she said. “It’s very similar in size and look to a SeaLand container that you’d typically see on a barge.”
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