End of road for a Liberty

摘要

One of the few surviving World War Ⅱ Liberty ships has arrived at Galveston in Texas to be scrapped. Sturgis, which was converted to a floating nuclear power station in 1963, had been laid up in the James River in Virginia since 1977. Her pressurised water reactor was removed in in 1977, and a $34.66 million contract has been signed with CB&I (Chicago Bridge and Iron) Federal Services to oversee the process of safely removing the radioactive metal from the ship and placing it in special containers for transfer to a low-level radioactive waste storage facility.