Anyone care to guess...

[FastEddieB]

...what these structures were designed for? Hint: Somewhere in TN.

 

[asicer]

Concert stage?

 

[FastEddieB]

Nope. Weirder than that!

 

[tmyers]

Is that where they used to do the aircraft crash testing?

 

[WannFly]

things i dont need in my airspace when i am flying low and slow

 

[JOhnH]

Bungee drop?

 

[FastEddieB]

Not antennas. Not crash testing. Not bungee drop.

Answer tonight after Jeopardy if no one gets it.

 

[Bill]

Something to do with testing atomic bombs?

 

[FastEddieB]

Getting closer...

 

[JOhnH]

Let's see; it's in Tennessee.
It must have something to do with either

Moonshine
Dolly Parton
UT Football

 

[EdFred]

Road kill smoking racks.

 

[Fiveslide]

Deer stand

Or looking-down-Dolly's-shirt stand

 

[kyleb]

If you do that, do you get Dollywood?

 

[Bell206]

Something to do with testing atomic bombs?

Getting closer...

Is it located at the Oak Ridge Lab?

 

[Turningfinal]

Tower Shielding Facility located at Oak Ridge.

Originally used to test nuclear airplane’s reactor when aloft
Used in 1960’s to develop shielding for astronauts

I cheated a little bit, but interesting nonetheless!
https://www.dol.gov/owcp/energy/reg...eeoic_training/DOE_Info_Sessions/PDFs/X10.pdf

http://knoxblogs.com/atomiccity/2016/03/18/does-remote-site-has-unusual-history/

 

[Juliet Hotel]

I'm going to guess its something military and involves blowing stuff up.

 

[kath]

Upcoming live-action Tetris competition.

 

[Ventucky Red]

Movie set for Frankenstein 2020?

 

[FastEddieB]

Turningfinal got it!



Just a few miles from our new TN home - flew over it today and took the photo in the first post.

 

[NealRomeoGolf]

Guillotine

 

[Salty]

Why in the world do you need a tower to test if a cockpit is shielded well enough for a nuclear powered aircraft?

 

[RyanB]

Or looking-down-Dolly's-shirt stand

HA!

 

[woodchucker]

Why in the world do you need a tower to test if a cockpit is shielded well enough for a nuclear powered aircraft?

I’m guessing they may have also simulated flight conditions using cable pulls to test how their little reactors held up to maneuvering and/or radiation measurements in the airspace around the reactor.

I was a nuke on a sub but that’s just an educated guess. I’m kinda glad the government decided nuclear powered aircraft wasn’t a viable option.

 

[asicer]

I was a nuke on a sub but that’s just an educated guess. I’m kinda glad the government decided nuclear powered aircraft wasn’t a viable option.

Nuclear aircraft was supposed to have been powered by molten salt reactors. It's a different fuel cycle and a lot safer than plutonium...

...theoretically.

 

[woodchucker]

Nuclear aircraft was supposed to have been powered by molten salt reactors. It's a different fuel cycle and a lot safer than plutonium...

...theoretically.

Just did some brief reading on that. Liquid salt is the cooling medium in the primary and secondary loops, essentially the water in our typical nuclear reactors, but it still needs a heat source, likely uranium.

 

[asicer]

Just did some brief reading on that. Liquid salt is the cooling medium in the primary and secondary loops, essentially the water in our typical nuclear reactors, but it still needs a heat source, likely uranium.

I had thought they were trying to use thorium for the aviation application, but this is way before my time so I could be way off.

 

[Let'sgoflying!]

There's an airplane for which I'd want a cockpit geiger counter, core temp indication on the panel, and good ejection capability!

 

[Huckster79]

Wow and we worry about some LL in our tanks in an incident/accident!

 

[EdFred]

Wow and we worry about some LL in our tanks in an incident/accident!

I worry about not having LL in the tanks!!