Containment and Disposal Facility
CAD-FAC is a nuclear-waste containment complex outside Atlanta, now receiving convention crowds while protesters remain beyond its barriers.
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The Containment and Disposal Facility, nicknamed CAD-FAC, is intended to house most of the world’s spent nuclear fuel in Fulton County. Paul Thurman says fuel cannot be stored until an emergency shelter is built nearby to protect employees against an attack or leak. Specifications call for a bunker able to house ten thousand people for at least a year. Conspiracy websites instead claim it will conceal weapons or detain gun-owning libertarians.
Thurman describes fixed outer dimensions, simultaneous construction throughout the complex, and furnished floors lowered into place before intervening slabs are poured. He reports a hundred crews from a dozen countries; Donald and Mick Webb find language barriers behind many early delays. Plans call for gaps between the new hills to be closed. Anti-nuclear demonstrators protest outside the fences, and the planned fuel route skirting Atlanta causes concern.
Donald later reports the outer shells poured and lower floors installed. Ridges form roads between sunken bowls, and supplies continue arriving, including livestock. National Convention arrivals now pass through the security station while barriers exclude protesters opposing the site’s present or future use. Donald expects nuclear fuel deliveries after the convention decorations come down.
Appearance
The complex has sunken bowls connected by ridges used as roads, poured outer shells, installed lower floors, security fences, and barriers.
Role
A nuclear containment project with associated underground shelter construction, currently hosting convention arrivals.
Relationships
Sources — 22 recorded facts, by chapter
- The Containment and Disposal Facility is nicknamed CAD-FAC.
- CAD-FAC is intended to house most of the world’s spent nuclear fuel.
- Conspiracy websites claim CAD-FAC will be a secret weapons site or a detention facility for gun-owning libertarians.
- Thurman says CAD-FAC cannot store fuel rods until an emergency shelter is built nearby.
- Thurman says the shelter is intended to protect facility employees in the event of an attack or leak.
- The facility Donald is helping design is outside Atlanta.
- The facility specifications require a bunker that can house ten thousand people for at least a year.
- Thurman says the entire construction complex is being worked on simultaneously.
- Thurman says the complex’s outer walls and foundations have fixed dimensions.
- Thurman describes a plan to lower fully furnished floors into the structures before pouring the slabs between them.
- Thurman says construction involves a hundred crews from a dozen countries and accumulating materials.
- The construction project is intended to bury spent nuclear fuel rods from around the world in Fulton County.
- Donald and Mick find that language barriers between work crews account for many early construction delays.
- The construction plans call for gaps between the newly raised hills to be closed.
- Anti-nuclear protesters chant outside the site’s security fences.
- The proposed transport route for the project’s spent fuel rods skirts Atlanta and has generated public concern.
- Donald reports that the facility’s outer shells have been poured and its lower floors installed.
- The containment facility has a network of ridges used as roads between its sunken bowls.
- The containment facility receives a continuing flow of supplies, including livestock.
- Convention arrivals pass through the CAD-FAC security station.
- The CAD-FAC’s barriers keep out protestors opposing its present or future use.
- Donald expects spent nuclear fuel to be brought to the containment facility after convention decorations are removed.