![]() ![]() Students are picking up on different things and developing a variety of ideas, all proposing alternate futures for this complicated site along the Hudson River."Ĭontinue reading on the Architecture, Art, and Planning website. The outcome of the studio is very diverse. Chernobyl involved an intense fire without. That’s when regulators cited Unit 3 at the Indian Point Energy Center. There have been two major reactor accidents in the history of civil nuclear power Chernobyl and Fukushima Daiichi. "It's a complex studio dealing with expansive concepts of time. One of the pair of active nuclear reactors within blast radius of Manhattan made a federal safety watch-list back in 1993. ![]() "The studio asks students to consider the relationship between energy, material, and experience," Idenburg explains. Buchanan, NY Intensely controversial Indian Point nuclear power plant will completely cease operations by 2021, but the move to shutter operations on the facility located just 25 miles north of New York City has itself stirred contention. These are the kinds of questions that HALF – LIFE, an option studio co-taught by Architecture Professor of the Practice Florian Idenburg and Lecturer Jonathan Molloy (both of the architecture and design firm SO – IL), is exploring with twelve undergraduate and graduate students studying at the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center this semester as they consider the adaptive reuse potential of the Indian Point Energy Center. That won't solve the biggest problemspent fuel. 16 The licensee, Entergy, plans to decommission Unit 1 when Unit 2 is decommissioned. All spent fuel was removed from the reactor vessel by January 1976, but the reactor still stands. What happens to a building when its original purpose disappears? Other than becoming a costly landfill, what alternative paths exist to give such structures their next lease on life? Japan Nuclear Meltdown: Time for a Fix for Indian Point's Spent Fuel Rods Forget closing nuclear plants in the wake of the Japan disaster. The reactor was shut down on October 31, 1974, because the emergency core cooling system did not meet regulatory requirements. ![]()
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