Brookhaven Reactor Succumbs to Antinuke Hysteria

摘要

In retrospect, the closure of one of the nation's premier research reactors was preordained nearly three years ago, when Brookhaven National Laboratory admitted it had let the reactor run for more than a decade while seeping water containing minute quantities of tritium into the Long Island groundwater. Since then, the High Flux Beam Reactor has been kept in standby, at a cost of $23 million a year, while the Department of Energy dithered over its fate.