Savannah River Site

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United States Department of Energy facility nuclear reservation

Savannah River Site is a U.S. Department of Energy nuclear reservation in South Carolina historically used for producing materials for nuclear weapons and now focused on environmental cleanup and nuclear materials management.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	United States Department of Energy facility → nuclear reservation →
adjacentTo	Savannah River Site National Environmental Research Park →
area	approximately 310 square miles →
builtFor	United States Atomic Energy Commission →
constructionStartDate	1950 →
containsFacility	Defense Waste Processing Facility → F Area Tank Farm → F Canyon → H Area Tank Farm → H Canyon → K Area Complex → L Area → Salt Waste Processing Facility → Savannah River National Laboratory →
country	United States →
environmentalStatus	Superfund site →
formerFacility	C Reactor → K Reactor → L Reactor → P Reactor → R Reactor →
formerOperator	DuPont → Westinghouse Savannah River Company →
hasResearchFocus	environmental remediation → nuclear materials processing → nuclear nonproliferation technologies →
historicalEra	Cold War →
hosts	Savannah River Ecology Laboratory →
locatedIn	Aiken County, South Carolina → Barnwell County, South Carolina → South Carolina →
locatedNear	Savannah River →
nearbyCity	Aiken, South Carolina → Augusta, Georgia →
operator	Savannah River Nuclear Solutions →
ownedBy	United States Department of Energy →
produced	plutonium-239 → tritium →
producedFor	United States nuclear weapons program →
purpose	environmental cleanup → management of spent nuclear fuel → nuclear materials management → production of nuclear materials for nuclear weapons → radioactive waste management → tritium production and processing →
regulator	South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control → United States Environmental Protection Agency →
securityLevel	high-security federal facility →

Referenced by (10)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Savannah River Site ("Savannah River National Laboratory") → Savannah River Site ("Defense Waste Processing Facility") → Savannah River Site ("Salt Waste Processing Facility") →	containsFacility
Savannah River Site ("Savannah River Site National Environmental Research Park") →	adjacentTo
Aiken County, South Carolina →	contains
United States nuclear weapons complex →	includesFacility
Aiken County, South Carolina →	knownFor
Savannah River →	nearFacility
United States Atomic Energy Commission →	oversawFacility
National Nuclear Security Administration ("Savannah River Site tritium facilities") →	oversees