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Written by NukeWorker from public records: facts that do not change. Operator, status and capacity come from the live data elsewhere on this page. Sources: DOE Legacy Management: Columbus, Ohio, Sites Fact Sheet; EECAP: Battelle Laboratories-West Jefferson; Wikipedia: Battelle Memorial Institute.
Battelle Columbus refers to the nuclear research operations of Battelle Memorial Institute, an organization founded in Columbus, Ohio, in 1929 by Gordon Battelle. Its atomic energy work was done at a laboratory on King Avenue in Columbus and at a larger site near West Jefferson, Ohio.
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At West Jefferson, Battelle carried out atomic energy research from 1943 to 1986 for the Department of Energy and its predecessors. The hot cell building was built in 1955, and a research reactor operated from October 1956 to December 1974, then was defueled and partly dismantled in 1975. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved the decommissioning plan in 1994, and decommissioning work began in 1999. The NRC terminated the site's special nuclear material license in May 2008.
