Brookhaven Lab to dismantle reactor by September 2011
Photo credit: Newsday file / 1982 | Brookhaven National Lab’s Graphite Research Reactor will be completely dismantled by September 2011.
Brookhaven National Laboratory's long-closed Graphite Research Reactor will be completely dismantled by September 2011 with help from $28 million in new stimulus funding, federal officials announced Tuesday at the Upton lab.
The reactor - the world's first peacetime research reactor - ceased operation in the late 1960s. The remaining disassembling work includes dismantling a concrete and steel...
