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wlrun3@aol.com:
lodging...clarion hotel, richland...$50 per day...this is where bevelacqua holds his chp prep course.
B reactor tour...you'll be sorry you didn't take this tour while you were there.
On the Home Front, Michelle Gerber...Hanford Site Historian...The Book.
Hanford's Battle with Waste Storage Tank SY-101, Chuck Stewart...Tank Farms is the heart of Hanford and this is its story.
roadhp:
actually tank farms is not the heart, it's at the other end of the spectrum, if you get my drift, Bill :P
wlrun3@aol.com:
in the introduction of chuck stewart's book about tank SY 101 he says that they spent millions of dollars over a period of several decades and remediated nothing...just moved the waste around...
i always thought that b reactor, t plant and the first atomic bomb, july 16, 1945 in new mexico using hanfords plutonium was the beginning of the nuclear world we know...having daily driven past trench 94, which is the resting place of most of the boats that were the early lives of so many techs, i am convinced that the remaining legacy isn't the boats, the reactors, the nevada test site, ebr1, oak ridge....it's what's in those tanks.
stewart's story ends late at night, alone, in a trailer in the desert watching the last residue of the crust swirl away...the monster was finally dead
Marlin:
--- Quote from: wlrun3 on Oct 18, 2010, 11:34 ---having daily driven past trench 94, which is the resting place of most of the boats that were the early lives of so many techs,
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Reactor compartments from both of my boats are in that trench, USS Spadefish SSN 668 and USS Hammerhead SSN 663. It would have been nice if at least one of the 637 class had been preserved as a museum boat as was the Narwhal and the Nautilus.
http://navsource.org/archives/08/100/0857524.jpg
HydroDave63:
--- Quote from: Marssim on Oct 19, 2010, 08:30 ---A boat is a boat is a boat, for the museum goers who never sailed in one the impact of the Nautilus versus a "short" Sturgeon versus the Narwhal is not worth the effort or expense, particularly tax payer expense.
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You aren't smelling the profit from a line of " I bumped my head aboard SSN 591, and all I got was this "patrol" T-shirt" ? ;)
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