Test Area North Hot Shop Demolition

The Hot Shop facility at the Test Area North of the Idaho National Laboratory site was built with 7 foot thick high-density concrete walls reinforce with concrete. Taking down such a building requires the use of explosives.

As part of the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho Cleanup Project, demolition teams have been detonating a series of explosions demolition teams use explosives to cut archways walls. This demolition work will prepare the robust facility for the final demolition scheduled in mid-October.

TAN-607, commonly known as the "Hot Shop," was built in 1954 to support research related to the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion project. Originally designed to handle remote work on highly radioactive components of nuclear-powered jet engines after each test, it was put to many other nuclear safety and accident research uses over the years.

The Hot Shop is the last major facility to be demolished at Test Area North as part of the Idaho Cleanup Project.

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• explosive
• demolition
• TAN
• Idaho
• Hotshop

[SPARTAN137ODST]

Those were old test facilities in NTS.

[bfarmer7]

read the descrition

[garycalgary]

wonder what that was used for