H Canyon

E104342

industrial facility nuclear chemical separations facility

H Canyon is a large nuclear chemical separations facility at the Savannah River Site used for processing and recovering nuclear materials.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
F Canyon	1
H Canyon canonical	1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	industrial facility ⓘ nuclear chemical separations facility ⓘ
associatedFacility	F Canyon ⓘ
buildingType	canyon-style processing building ⓘ
commissioned	1950s ⓘ
constructionStart	early 1950s ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
currentRole	supports cleanup and disposition of surplus nuclear materials ⓘ supports national security and nonproliferation programs ⓘ
designedBy	U.S. Atomic Energy Commission contractors ⓘ
designedFor	production of nuclear materials for U.S. defense programs ⓘ
environmentalRole	supports cleanup of legacy nuclear materials at Savannah River Site ⓘ
handlesMaterial	highly enriched uranium ⓘ other special nuclear materials ⓘ plutonium ⓘ spent nuclear fuel ⓘ
hasHeight	multi-story industrial structure ⓘ
hasLength	hundreds of meters (approximate scale) ⓘ
hasProcess	aqueous chemical separation ⓘ purification of nuclear materials ⓘ solvent extraction ⓘ
historicalRole	produced special nuclear materials during the Cold War ⓘ
locatedIn	Savannah River Site ⓘ
nearCity	Aiken, South Carolina ⓘ Augusta, Georgia ⓘ
notableFeature	massive reinforced concrete structure ⓘ one of the last large-scale, operating, chemical separations canyons in the United States ⓘ
operatedBy	Savannah River Nuclear Solutions ⓘ
ownedBy	U.S. Department of Energy ⓘ
partOf	Savannah River Site ⓘ surface form: Savannah River Site nuclear complex U.S. nuclear weapons complex infrastructure ⓘ
primaryFunction	nuclear chemical separation ⓘ processing nuclear materials ⓘ recovering nuclear materials ⓘ
regulator	U.S. Department of Energy ⓘ
safetyFeature	heavily shielded process areas ⓘ remote handling of radioactive materials ⓘ
securityLevel	high-security nuclear facility ⓘ
state	South Carolina ⓘ
status	operational (as of early 21st century) ⓘ
supportsProgram	U.S. nonproliferation initiatives ⓘ U.S. nuclear material disposition programs ⓘ
usedFor	downblending highly enriched uranium ⓘ preparing materials for disposition or reuse ⓘ separating plutonium and uranium from irradiated nuclear fuel ⓘ stabilizing legacy nuclear materials ⓘ supporting nonproliferation missions ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: H Canyon
Description of subject: H Canyon is a large nuclear chemical separations facility at the Savannah River Site used for processing and recovering nuclear materials.

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Savannah River Site → containsFacility → H Canyon ⓘ

this entity surface form: F Canyon