Boiling Nuclear Superheater (BONUS) Reactor Facility

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Decommissioned Reactors ( gross ):

The Boiling Nuclear Superheater (BONUS ) was an experimental reactor type.

One of two specimens was located in Rincon, in the northwest of Puerto Rico. The construction of the reactor began in 1960, the experiments were terminated in 1968 because of escalating costs and ever increasing technical problems. Owner of the plant were the Puerto Rico Water Resources Authority ( PRWRA ) and the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. They have dismantled the plant from 1969 to 1970. The fuel rods were brought back to the mainland, another asset such as contaminated reactor vessel were cast on site. Originally it was hoped to have made the problem so out of the world, but in the 1990s and 2000s further contamination was detected and would have to be removed.

Today, the site of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority belongs ( PREPA ), the successor to the PRWRA. The monitoring is done by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the successor organization of the United States Atomic Energy Commission.

Data of the reactor block

The Boiling Nuclear Superheater in Rincon had a block:

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