That is good news. All our family is down there. We were talking at Christmas and I made mention and my brother said it had been closed but didnt say how long I thought it was recently.
On the map from earlier post there doent seen to be any cells in the south except North Carolina and Texas. I dont know what to figure from that?
On July 1, 1997, the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) administration notified the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) of their intent to decommission the Georgia Tech Research Reactor (GTRR). The GTRR is a 5-megawatt (MW) heavy-water-cooled nuclear reactor located in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. In the summer of 1999, the NRC issued a license amendment to decommission the GTRR in accordance with NRC’s Regulatory Guide 1.86. In the spring of 1999, Georgia Tech and the State of Georgia contracted the services of CH2M HILL to serve as the Executive Engineer to manage the decommissioning project. Later in the summer of 1999, the IT Corporation was selected as the decommissioning contractor. IT subcontracted the waste management activities to GTS/Duratek, and the contractor mobilized on the Georgia Tech site in November 1999 to begin the dismantlement process. By February 2000, the reactor support systems, such as the primary and secondary cooling water systems, and the bismuth cooling system, were removed and packaged for off-site disposal. The reactor internals were removed in April 2000. The bioshield removal occurred in the May to November 2000 time frame. Various levels of effort were spent throughout January 2001 decontaminating concrete structures, including the Spent Fuel Storage Hole. The Final Survey report is anticipated to be submitted to the NRC in March 2001, and the final license termination is expected from the NRC August of 2001.
The reactor was licensed in 1964 with an engineered lifetime of 30 years. It operated through November 17, 1995 and generated 40,204 MW-hours (hr) of thermal energy over its lifetime. After 30 years of operations, Georgia Tech applied for a license renewal. As a part of the license renewal, the conversion of the reactor from high-enriched fuel to low-enriched fuel was planned. Because Georgia Tech was to serve as the Olympic Village and the venue for several sporting events during the summer of 1996, the Georgia Tech Administration had the fuel removed and shipped to the Savannah River Site in February 1996.
In May 1997, the NRC renewed the GTRR operating license. However, shortly thereafter, the Georgia Tech Administration decided not to receive the low-enriched fuel, but to decommission the reactor instead. The administration cited several reasons for this decision: (1) approximately $2 million in renovations would be required to bring the reactor up to present-day standards; (2) under utilization of the reactor for the previous 10 years; (3) major public and political attention during the Olympics, and (4) the cost of continued operation.