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Fig. 6.42 Torpedohallen, Holmen, Copenhagen.
Credit to SEIER+SEIER.

through the reactor, and then back to the river. Each water treatment pool is huge:
106 m long, 39 m wide with a nominal water depth of 5 m.
In the 1990s, it was suggested that the K area water treatment facilities could be
used for the rearing of fish. A marketing effort was undertaken to match the facility
with potential users. Fish-rearing projects for the K area are described in Anderson and
Herborn (1994). The project implementation is a long-term task. As of June 2018
workers had successfully transferred the first batch of highly radioactive sludge out
of underwater storage in the K West Reactor Basin: the DOE is required by law to
have all the sludge removed by 2019 (Exchange Monitor, 2018).
As indicated in SRS (1995) four large, open basins were built at SRS to collect
water pumped from the Savannah River to provide cooling water for the site reactors.