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Title: 209-E Critical Mass Laboratory Demolition
209-E Critical Mass Laboratory Demolition
Name: 209-E Critical Mass Laboratory Demolition
Document Date: 12/01/2011
Keywords: Demolition, 209-E, critical mass laboratory, CH2M HILL
Official Building Numbers: 209-E
Area: 200 East
Description:
CH2M HILL workers tear away at the 5-foot-thick concrete walls of the 209-E Critical Mass Laboratory. The laboratory was run by Battelle for years to identify controls for criticalities, the term used for the dangerous condition when fissile material can sustain a reaction by itself. The facility housed experiments to test the criticality limits of uranium and plutonium solutions.
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