Nuclear power plant to be decommissioned
FAIRBANKS An Army Corp of Engineers team is planning the formal decommissioning of the only nuclear power plant ever built in Alaska, Fort Greelys SM-1A plant.
The SM-1A plant provided steam and electricity to the Army post near Delta Junction off and on between 1962 and 1972. It was one of eight experimental projects to test the use of small nuclear power plants at remote installations.
Its expected to take about 10 years to plan, contract out and complete the SM-1A cleanup, according to a Baltimore-based team from the Army Corps of Engineers that came to Fort Greely for meetings last month.
One particular challenge of decommissioning SM-1A is that the steam plant previously powered by the nuclear reactor is still in use, although today its powered by a diesel-fired power plant.
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