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Storage (ISS) in 2012. ISS consists of the removal of the fuel storage basin, ancillary support facilities, and most portions of the shield wall that surround the 105-N Reactor. In addition, the 109-N Heat Exchanger Building was removed up to the steam generator cells. A new steel roof was installed over the remaining structures. Before and after pictures are found in the facility status change form. Final room status report of the current as-left condition of accessible rooms in the ISS has been documented.
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in 1988, with "final deactivation" beginning in 1994 and completing in 1998. Deactivation consisted of shutdown and isolation of operational systems and the cleanup of radiological and hazardous waste. N-Reactor (the 105-N Reactor and the 109-N Heat Exchanger Building) were placed in Interim Safe
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The reactor was shut down in 1987, when the Secretary of Energy determined that no more plutonium was needed and placed on
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or WPPSS. The power rating of the N-Reactor was 4000 MWt, with a power output of 800 MWe at the power generating plant.
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In an improvement on the earlier Hanford reactors, N-Reactor was built with a confinement building (although not a
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and, from 1966, producing steam to allow production of electricity to feed the civilian
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HANFORD SITE: PROCESSES AND FACILITIES HISTORY, Section 2.2 N Reactor Operations
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US Department of State Bulletin, "Soviet nuclear reactor accident at Chernobyl"
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Chernobyl lessons learned review of N Reactor, 1987. DOI: 10.2172/719193
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It was a one-of-a-kind design in the U.S., being both a
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Nuclear Energy Principles, Practices, and Prospects
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HANFORD SITE: PROCESSES AND FACILITIES HISTORY, Section 2.2 N Reactor Operations
ANS Nuclear Cafe: Hanford One
US Department of State Bulletin, "Soviet nuclear reactor accident at Chernobyl"
"Hanford's N Reactor sealed"


"D4-100N-0046: FACILITY STATUS CHANGE FORM AREA 100N FACILITY ID: 105N/109N BUILDINGS ACTION MEMORANDUM 105N/109N BUILDINGS"

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