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Photo, Print, Drawing Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Idaho Chemical Processing Plant, Fuel Reprocessing Complex, Scoville, Butte County, ID

[ Photos from Survey HAER ID-33-H  ]

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[ Data Pages from Survey HAER ID-33-H  ]
[ Photo Captions from Survey HAER ID-33-H  ]

About this Item

Title

  • Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Idaho Chemical Processing Plant, Fuel Reprocessing Complex, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Names

  • Historic American Engineering Record, creator
  • Foster Wheeler Corporation
  • Bechtel Corporation
  • U.S. Department of Energy
  • Phillips Petroleum

Created / Published

  • Documentation compiled after 1968

Headings

  • -  Cold War
  • -  nuclear facilities
  • -  nuclear reactors
  • -  Idaho -- Butte County -- Scoville

Notes

  • -  Significance: For nearly four decades, the Fuel Reprocessing Complex (Buildings CPP-601, CPP-603, CPP-627, and CPP-640) at the Idaho Chemical Processing Plant (ICPP) recovered usable uranium from spent reactor fuel. The facility was constantly evolving to process new types of spent nuclear fuel and would eventually process materials from nearly 100 different reactors. Research and test reactors located at the National Reactor Testing Station supplied a large proportion of the fuel load for the facility, along with nearly all of the fuel cores that had powered the United States Navy's fleet of nuclear submarines and surface ships. Fuels clad in aluminum, zirconium, stainless steel, and graphite were routinely processed at the plant. Custom processing capabilities were also developed through the years and a variety of valuable isotopes and inert gases were isolated and shipped to research laboratories across the country. As ICPP scientists developed the facilities and skills necessary to reprocess highly enriched fuels from so many different sources, they also came up with many general improvements and scientific advances in fuel reprocessing techniques and waste management as a whole. In 1992, when changing political tides and lowered demand for uranium caused the Department of Energy to halt all fuel reprocessing efforts across the country, approximately 31,432 kg of uranium had been successfully recovered at the Idaho Chemical Processing Plant. The four main buildings that housed the complex fuel reprocessing operation now await decontamination and demolition.
  • -  Survey number: HAER ID-33-H
  • -  Building/structure dates: after. 1953- before. 1961 Initial Construction

Medium

  • Photo(s): 93
  • Data Page(s): 80
  • Photo Caption Page(s): 15

Call Number/Physical Location

  • HAER ID-33-H

Source Collection

  • Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)

Repository

Control Number

  • id0446

Rights Advisory

Online Format

  • image
  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Historic American Engineering Record, Creator, Foster Wheeler Corporation, Bechtel Corporation, U.S. Department Of Energy, and Phillips Petroleum. Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Idaho Chemical Processing Plant, Fuel Reprocessing Complex, Scoville, Butte County, ID. Idaho Butte County Scoville, 1968. Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/id0446/.

APA citation style:

Historic American Engineering Record, C., Foster Wheeler Corporation, Bechtel Corporation, U.S. Department Of Energy & Phillips Petroleum. (1968) Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Idaho Chemical Processing Plant, Fuel Reprocessing Complex, Scoville, Butte County, ID. Idaho Butte County Scoville, 1968. Documentation Compiled After. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/id0446/.

MLA citation style:

Historic American Engineering Record, Creator, et al. Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Idaho Chemical Processing Plant, Fuel Reprocessing Complex, Scoville, Butte County, ID. Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/id0446/>.