Containment Dome Falls To Beautif ication Program

摘要

Nearly 20 years after work stopped on the second unit containment dome of the Seabrook, N.H., nuclear powerplant, officials have finally ordered the demolition of the rusting steel structure. Their action is the last chapter of a costly and protracted battle that inflated construction costs 140-ft-dia, 70-ft-tall steel plate liner, removing 40-ft-tall sections of #18 rebar from the dome foundation, demolishing a fuel storage building and cutting exposed rebar on several other incomplete buildings. The dome was never fin-ished with a reinforced concrete cover.