Decommission Plan for Alcatel-Lucent Facility
- Date Range
- May 2008 – May 2008
- Title
- Decommission Plan for Alcatel-Lucent Facility
- What occurred
- The facility in Murray Hill is currently owned by Nokia, but in 2008 it was run by the parent company Alcatel-Lucent. Alcatel-Lucent created a decommissioning plan for the facility in May of 2008 to terminate any activity that involved radioactive material and attempt to clean up the campus. The company enlisted the assistance of Chase Environmental Group, who surveyed the facility in 2007. Alcatel-Lucent terminated two out of their three US NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) licenses at the facility, and decommissioned the facility. About a decade earlier, the company discovered residual radiation around building 16, and the company was forced to demolish the building and excavate the surrounding soil. With the new plan, the company planned to look for any other sources of residual radiation and deal with it in a similar fashion.
- Location
- 600 Mountain Ave bldg 5, New Providence, NJ 07974
- Student name(s)
- Josh Vaidman