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Jun 05, 2006 23:45

I went to the hanford nuclear site where they built the fucking bomb, it was amazing, and i'll get pictures up as soon as i can. but i saw the B reactor where they made the uranium and enriched plutonium for the atom bomb dropped on nagasaki. it was very eerie. i was standing in the shadow of the cold war, it was really crazy. anyway we were asked ( Read more... )

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chaschmalim June 6 2006, 18:29:57 UTC
Awesome essay!

It must have been so amazing to have gone there. I'm envious!

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vendettachaser June 6 2006, 19:35:49 UTC
im gonna try and get pictures of the b reactor posted here. i saw the reactor, it was a 46ft by 46ft cube about, 14 meters cube. it was big. i realized that if i was standing there 60 years ago i would have been standing in a top secret area and might have been shot. lol. they did it all without computers, everything was calculated on paper and they made it work flawlessly. it reall was amazing.

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