Fort Greely reactor
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers health physicists and project leadership join Fort Greely personnel and contractor representatives for kick-off meetings at the former SM-1A Nuclear Power Plant on Fort Greely,
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers health physicists and project leadership join Fort Greely personnel and contractor representatives for kick-off meetings at the former SM-1A Nuclear Power Plant on Fort Greely,
2:58 Army officials shut down the SM-1A in 1972 after 10 years of operation and partially dismantled and mothballed the facility until they could figure out what to do with it. The Corps of Engineers now proposes to remove what’s left of the old power plant in a draft Environmental Assessment released last week that the agency will share with the public on Tuesday in Fairbanks and Thursday in Delta Junction. Some of the SM-1A's radioactive components that were not removed are sealed and entombed in the cylindrically shaped vapor containment tower at left. Credit KUAC file photo “We wanted...