L reactor area

 nuclear reactor, nuclear waste storage

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L reactor was a nuclear reactor which produced plutonium for U. S. nuclear bombs between 1954 and 1988

Today Area L home to
Spent Fuel Management

In 1996, the L Reactor Basin equipment was reconfigured to safely handle and store SNF from foreign and domestic research reactors. The first off-site fuel was received and stored in February 1997.Only L Basin still contains and receives fuel material. The basins have concrete walls 3 feet thick and hold 3.5 million gallons of water with pool depths of 17 to 30 feet. Although assemblies no longer require cooling, water provides shielding to protect workers from radiation

Inventories include SRS target assemblies in addition to the thousands of research reactor spent fuel assemblies received from off-site facilities. Additionally, the basins contain other miscellaneous nuclear materials, some of which will require special handling and disposal. Thousands more assemblies are projected to be received and stored in L Basin in the next decade.

www.srs.gov/general/programs/spentfuel/index.htm