Open AccessWeldon Spring Site Remedial Action Project approach to building dismantlement and demolition
Author(s) -
Felix J. Spittler
Publication year - 1996
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/196467
Subject(s) - remedial action , demolition , spring (device) , environmental remediation , uranium , environmental science , engineering , waste management , civil engineering , contamination , physics , ecology , nuclear physics , mechanical engineering , biology
When remediation began at the Weldon Spring Site Remedial Action Project (WSSRAP), there were 41 buildings on site. Twenty-nine of these buildings were ancillary structures and were not used for processing radioactive material. Most of these have been torn down. The remaining 12 buildings were used for uranium and thorium processing or were major support structures, such as the laboratory. Two of the buildings were major processing operations occurred were successfully demolished in February of this year. Demolition of all structures will be complete in September of this year. To give an understanding of the magnitude of the work, the following is a description of the physical characteristics of the green salt building. This building was used to convert brown oxide (UO3) to green salt (UF4), which is the last intermediate step in purifying the mostly yellow cake feed material into uranium metal