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The reactor was actually de-fueled long before that in 1975, but the reactor vessel has still not been removed and the associated parts await eventuall decontam
by vibrolax 12y ago
The reactor was actually de-fueled long before that in 1975, but the reactor vessel has still not been removed and the associated parts await eventuall decontamination and decommissioning.
As a 6 year old child of the Atomic Age, my parents took me to tour the Savannah at her Port Everglades (Ft. Lauderdale FL) stop in 1964. The view through a window at the nearly featureless grey reactor vessel was anticlimactic. The most memorable sight for me was the stainless steel bar/lounge for the passengers. It looked like it had never been used.
When I was about 10 years old I built a plastic styrene model, which included a detailed reactor that I carefully painted in he assigned colors colors. All this detail disappeared forever into the grey containment vessel.