denverpilot
Tied Down
Always been fascinated with the stupid crap we did with nuclear power and for Cold War purposes...
Camp Century: An Army base with a "portable" nuclear reactor built underneath the Greenland icecap in the early 1960s.
And of course, the cover story was science, but the declassified data later showed we wanted to know if it was possible to bury a smaller version of the Minuteman missiles there in the ice to strike over the pole faster.
The snow moved and collapsed in on many of the tunnels forcing the shut down of the nuclear reactor in 1963 and ultimate abandonment of the base in 1966.
http://gombessa.tripod.com/scienceleadstheway/id9.html
The two Boy Scouts offered the chance to live and work at the base is fascinating. What do you suppose that permission slip would look like today? LOL!
And of course if the ice keeps melting and snowfall stays low, sometime in the next 100 years the base will be uncovered including nuclear, human, and other waste products... re-exposed.
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016...military-base-may-be-unearthed-climate-change
Fascinating stuff. I wasn't alive yet.
One fascinating thing in one of the many webpages was the whole thing about them noticing after the reactor was up and running that it needed more shielding. Ha. Hey, I'm kind noticing these numbers on this Geiger counter here Bob, and, um....
The answer? Go stack some lead bricks around it. Thanks. Appreciate it.
Simpler times for sure.
Camp Century: An Army base with a "portable" nuclear reactor built underneath the Greenland icecap in the early 1960s.
And of course, the cover story was science, but the declassified data later showed we wanted to know if it was possible to bury a smaller version of the Minuteman missiles there in the ice to strike over the pole faster.
The snow moved and collapsed in on many of the tunnels forcing the shut down of the nuclear reactor in 1963 and ultimate abandonment of the base in 1966.
http://gombessa.tripod.com/scienceleadstheway/id9.html
The two Boy Scouts offered the chance to live and work at the base is fascinating. What do you suppose that permission slip would look like today? LOL!
And of course if the ice keeps melting and snowfall stays low, sometime in the next 100 years the base will be uncovered including nuclear, human, and other waste products... re-exposed.
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016...military-base-may-be-unearthed-climate-change
Fascinating stuff. I wasn't alive yet.
One fascinating thing in one of the many webpages was the whole thing about them noticing after the reactor was up and running that it needed more shielding. Ha. Hey, I'm kind noticing these numbers on this Geiger counter here Bob, and, um....
The answer? Go stack some lead bricks around it. Thanks. Appreciate it.
Simpler times for sure.
