Brigham Young University can now put its old nuclear reactor site to another use.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said in a news release Tuesday that it has terminated BYU's license for a closed research reactor and released the former reactor site for other uses.The LDS Church-owned university first asked the NRC in 1990 for permission to dismantle the reactor and dispose of its parts.

BYU began dismantling the reactor in 1992 and shipped the nuclear fuel to a Department of Energy facility. Tests have shown that residual radioactive contamination has been cleaned up to meet NRC criteria, the agency said.

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