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early morning before the heavy metal fires up
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soil "farming"
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excavating the "flats"
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ditch excavations
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PBRF 2005
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The tunnel to nowhere
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JJ's bike rescued from Watkins Glens
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Grouting party
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Hard work deserves a break
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Cleaning the WEMS
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Pentolite/Plum Brook confluence
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Pentolite ditch
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Reactor's pressure tank and core
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Brokk used for demolition of the wall of the bio-shield
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Glove bag enclosures were used for asbestos removal.
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Technicians work to install the core in the Plum Brook Reactor.
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Reactor Vessel Removal
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The diamond-wire saw cuts through a section of the bio-shield, with the thermal column shown at the upper left of the photo.
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The NASA Plum Brook Reactor Facility (PBRF) in the late 1960’s.
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Workers drilled deep into the walls for diamond-wire cutting.
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The Space Power Facility at the Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio
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NASA’s Plum Brook Station
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Internals Removal
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Water filled quadrants surrounding the Plum Brook nuclear reactor, 1961.
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Water filled quadrants surrounding the Plum Brook nuclear reactor, 1961.
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The PBRF reactor vessel with all internals removed.
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