Open AccessINDEPENDENT CONFIRMATORY SURVEY REPORT FOR THE REACTOR BUILDING, HOT LABORATORY, PRIMARY PUMP HOUSE, AND LAND AREAS AT THE PLUM BROOK REACTOR FACILITY, SANDUSKY, OHIO
Author(s) -
Erika N Bailey
Publication year - 2011
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/1034275
Subject(s) - aeronautics , environmental science , space shuttle , test (biology) , idle , national laboratory , advisory committee , archaeology , meteorology , engineering , geography , computer science , political science , aerospace engineering , ecology , public administration , engineering physics , biology , operating system
In 1941, the War Department acquired approximately 9,000 acres of land near Sandusky, Ohio and constructed a munitions plant. The Plum Brook Ordnance Works Plant produced munitions, such as TNT, until the end of World War II. Following the war, the land remained idle until the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics later called the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) obtained 500 acres to construct a nuclear research reactor designed to study the effects of radiation on materials used in space flight. The research reactor was put into operation in 1961 and was the first of fifteen test facilities eventually built by NASA at the Plum Brook Station. By 1963, NASA had acquired the remaining land at Plum Brook for these additional test facilitie