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    Radiological Health Physicist Hans Honerlah, the program manager for Baltimore District’s Radiological Center of Expertise, and STURGIS decommissioning Project Manager Brenda Barber watch Tuesday morning September 25, 2018 as crews finish the rigging necessary for STURGIS to be towed from Galveston, Texas to Brownsville, Texas for her final shipbreaking and recycling. Over the past three years in Galveston, Texas, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been implementing the challenging and complex efforts to decommission the MH-1A — the deactivated nuclear reactor that was onboard the STURGIS vessel. (Photo by Chris Gardner)

    STURGIS vessel en route to Brownsville for final shipbreaking and recycling

    GALVESTON, Texas – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ STURGIS vessel left this morning for the Port of Brownsville for her final journey. In two to three days, she will arrive at the International Shipbreaking Limited facility where she will be dismantled for recycling. The vessel is being towed from Galveston where it has undergone radiological decommissioning that included the safe removal of all components of the deactivated nuclear reactor and all associated radioactive waste that was formerly onboard the STURGIS.
  • Radiological Health Physicist Hans Honerlah, the program manager for Baltimore District’s Radiological Center of Expertise, and STURGIS decommissioning Project Manager Brenda Barber watch Tuesday morning September 25, 2018 as crews finish the rigging necessary for STURGIS to be towed from Galveston, Texas to Brownsville, Texas for her final shipbreaking and recycling. Over the past three years in Galveston, Texas, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been implementing the challenging and complex efforts to decommission the MH-1A — the deactivated nuclear reactor that was onboard the STURGIS vessel. (Photo by Chris Gardner)

    STURGIS vessel moved to Brownsville for final shipbreaking and recycling

    GALVESTON, Texas – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ STURGIS vessel left this morning for the Port of Brownsville for her final journey. In two to three days, she will arrive at the International Shipbreaking Limited facility where she will be dismantled for recycling. The vessel is being towed from Galveston where it has undergone radiological decommissioning that included the safe removal of all components of the deactivated nuclear reactor and all associated radioactive waste that was formerly onboard the STURGIS.
  • Undated image of STURGIS operating in the Panama Canal Zone. The STURGIS, a former World War II Liberty Ship, was converted into the first floating nuclear power plant in the 1960s. Before being shutdown in 1976, the STURGIS’ nuclear reactor, MH-1A, was used to generate electricity for military and civilian use in the Panama Canal.

    STURGIS Nuclear Decommissioning Completed by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Team

    No challenge is too complex for this team of experts. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers team has recently completed a very complex and unique project phase by finishing the decommissioning of the Army’s first and only floating nuclear reactor prototype – the MH-1A aboard the STURGIS.