What's to see there?

Visiting here would be more creepy:eek:
http://www.opuszczone.com/galerie/uk_prypec/index.php?lang=en

Not sure what's there but I'm as interested in what goes on inside my own head while I'm there as I am in what's there.

I'd like to go to Johnston Atoll. In Google Earth you can clearly see a deep blue hole where one of the first H-Bombs was unleashed.

If I was closer I'd go, looks interesting. Standing at ground zero for the nuclear age would be neat.

Timing is everything.

amazing power
 

Sounds like a cool trip. Check out some of the photos at this link... or search on the topic to see high speed photography of above ground nuclear blasts in the first few milliseconds.



http://simplethinking.com/home/rapatronic_photographs.htm

Pantex
 

Best place I ever got to go was the Pantex facility East of amarillo, TX.

It is where Nukes go to Die! They disassemble any/all Nuclear weapons down to the plutoneum core and then package the core in 3 layers of containment and store said core on site in one of their storage vaults.

I was on the first Public Media tour back in 1995 when I worked for Japanese TV.

It is an interesting place. The entire operation is in a dome structure, and is "fail safed" under 10,000 tons of gravel which is supposed to contain the radiation in the event of an accidental release during "deweaponization". Of course anyone in the facility will either be crushed by the gravel or killed by the radiation but at least the rest of us will be safe.
http://www.pantex.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpbCZ8QRpEg&feature=related

Bigest and baddest gun of them all.

not a tourist site
 

"Best place I ever got to go was the Pantex facility East of amarillo, TX."

I worked at what was called the "Savannah River Plant" back in the 70's. This place is not open to the public, but had some way cool technology. It was a nuke site build by Dupont in the late 40's and early 50's for the Dept of Defense. They make tritium and plutonium there, to be assembled into the warheads somewhere else. There are 5 large reactors and a bunch of other stuff scattered over 300 square miles near Augusta, GA. The engineering was amazing for the late 40's and it is still running. With relays and analog guages they could run a reactor from a remote building in case of an emergency.

In the engineering lab I was working in they had a 250,000 amp welder coupled to a 50 ton press to seal the tritium containers at 100,000 psi. As a friend used to say, "time for big science".

It would be fun to have a collection of information about all these interesting facilities around anywhere. Things like the aircraft "graveyard" out west, railroad museums,

So, we can survive a nuclear attck!! LOL.

Looks like it won't happen. Weather's not cooperating. I don't relish driving 400 miles at night in a snowstorm. Perhaps in October.

Yours truly standing on the target marker for the Operation Grapple British nuke test series at Christmas Island.

Mr P, I'd love to visit you out there. When my last kid moves out, let's talk.

B

If you look at Area51 on Google Earth. Just to the west of that is the Nevada test site where they did all the Nuke tests back in the 50's. Lots of big craters all over the place. Looks like a lunar landscape. Quite fascinating.

- Peter.