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isochanvre
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 Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 5:49 pm Post subject: UofA Nuclear Plant |
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| Has anyone ever heard of the abandoned University of Arkansas nuclear plant? I've heard people living near the area have reported higher cancer rates. Don't know if I would want to explore this, but curious about any information. |
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| Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 10:35 am Post subject: RE: UofA Nuclear Plant |
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The defunct test-site reactor, known as SEFOR, is near Strickler, about 20 miles southwest of Fayetteville in Washington County
The nuclear facility was built between 1965 and 1968 by Southwest Atomic Energy Associates, a consortium of 17 utility companies, General Electric Co., the West German government, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and the European Atomic Energy Community.
It opened in 1969 and was permanently shut down in 1972. Its nuclear core was removed but some radioactive material was left behind.
UA acquired the reactor and the surrounding 620 acres in 1972 with hopes of using the facility to train future nuclear engineers.
That was before the collapse of the domestic nuclear energy industry later in the 1970s. UA never used the reactor for research purposes and was saddled with a useless lab.
UA spends about $50,000 a year for maintenance and safety precautions at SEFOR, said Collis Geren, the university’s vice provost for research.
http://nwanews.com/story.php?paper=adg§ion=News&storyid=123424 |
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| Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 6:04 pm Post subject: RE: UofA Nuclear Plant |
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| So... Basically there's an abandoned nuclear reactor site outside of Fayetteville? |
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jetskiergrant
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| Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 4:57 am Post subject: RE: UofA Nuclear Plant |
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Does anyone know why this reactor was only open for three years? Seems kind of short for such an expensive project.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 4:47 am Post subject: Re: UofA Nuclear Plant |
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Any one got a map to this place
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| Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 9:44 pm Post subject: RE: UofA Nuclear Plant |
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The site is slowly being "cleaned" of any potentially radioactive material. There is material stored in a room/vault that is radioactive (mostly low level) along with a troublesome flooded basement. The secondary sodium system was being cleaned and removed.
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