Anticipated for demolition by the end of this year, the distinctive 320-foot-tall, red-and-white stack was used for a small research.
Office of Environmental Management
September 29, 2020
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UPTON, N.Y. – Under Secretary for Science Paul Dabbar and Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center Deputy Director Melody Bell, pictured at left, recently visited Brookhaven National Laboratory and viewed progress in an EM project to demolish the High Flux Beam Reactor (HFBR) exhaust stack, pictured above. Anticipated for demolition by the end of this year, the distinctive 320-foot-tall, red-and-white stack was used for a small research reactor that DOE shut down more than 20 years ago. The HFBR provided a source of neutrons for multidisciplinary scientific research in materials science, chemistry, biology, and physics.