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 |  | Buried NUKE Reactor near Chicago
< on 9/27/2010 8:49 PM >
|  | | | Not your typical UE, since there isn't much evidence remaining of this previously top-secret historic site. Essentially, there are two burial sites in Palos Forest Preserve. One is called 'Site A' and the other is 'Plot M'.
Site A has a buried nuclear reactor, the first self-sustaining reactor from 1942. It was called CP-1, later renamed CP-2 when it was moved from the University of Chicago campus to the Forest Preserve site and reconstructed. There is a marker stone, engraved with text to this regard. Also buried is another reactor, CP-3.
Plot M was where the contaminated waste materials were stored during the time and then later buried and entombed under concrete. These materials included items from solutions to animal carcasses.
Both sites were decommissioned in 1956. Impact on the surroundings appear to be well under control, with only limited issues found in underground well sampling. Tritium has been found in varying levels in well sampling, but is considered to be at safe levels. The restricted area(s) that were previously fenced were opened to the public approximately 1998.
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SCARECR0W
Location: Dallas Metroplex
Gender: Male
SneakerPimp Extraordinaire
| |  | Re: Buried NUKE Reactor near Chicago
<Reply # 1 on 9/27/2010 8:57 PM >
| | | | That's frickin' cool.
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Loki
 
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Gender: Male
| | Re: Buried NUKE Reactor near Chicago
<Reply # 2 on 9/27/2010 10:54 PM >
| | | | Get diggin son!
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Quarantine
 
Location: Denver
Gender: Female
retired former old-school UE'er
| | Re: Buried NUKE Reactor near Chicago
<Reply # 3 on 9/28/2010 4:31 AM >
| | | | I like how someone chipped off the "no" in the "There is no danger to Visitors" 
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DiVaMoNKeY
Location: Grundy County, IL
Gender: Female
I pushed with all my might; I pushed with all my love.
| |  |  | | Re: Buried NUKE Reactor near Chicago
<Reply # 4 on 9/28/2010 8:22 AM >
| | | | Years ago, a few friennd and I stumbled upon the markers when we were geocaching!
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consecrated
   
Location: Connecticut
Gender: Male
Æthereal
| | | Re: Buried NUKE Reactor near Chicago
<Reply # 5 on 9/28/2010 10:55 AM >
| | | | That's pretty cool...
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Freak
Location: Usually Alaska, now MSP.
Gender: Male
Hypocrite
| | | Re: Buried NUKE Reactor near Chicago
<Reply # 6 on 9/28/2010 3:30 PM >
|  | | | Nice, I wonder if they plan to update that marker... I think the idea for Yucca Mountain was to create language-neutral signs that would retain their meaning far into the future, since the half-life of some of the materials is longer than the expected survival of any modern language. In 10,000 years maybe that marker near Chicago will attract futuristic grave robbers looking for loot
Hell, even 50 years can be a problem. The army buried a bunch of crap in barrels on Fort Greely in AK in the 50s, then hired a contractor to install missile silos in the same spot a few years ago. Guess what they dug up?
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dsankt
Location: live and in the fresh
| | | | Re: Buried NUKE Reactor near Chicago
<Reply # 7 on 9/28/2010 6:59 PM >
| | | | Posted by ExplorerLoki
Get diggin son!
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Men, to your shovels.
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Spike
Location: New Zealand
Gender: Male
Rapid Canvas Therapy
| | Re: Buried NUKE Reactor near Chicago
<Reply # 8 on 9/28/2010 7:05 PM >
| | | | Posted by Quarantine
I like how someone chipped off the "no" in the "There is no danger to Visitors"
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lol "vandalism....it takes no prisoners!"
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Rjkd12
Location: Lincoln Park
Gender: Male
| |  | | Re: Buried NUKE Reactor near Chicago
<Reply # 9 on 10/1/2010 7:18 PM >
| | | | This post intrigued me, so I did a bit of looking into it. Here is a tad more info for anyone curious.
http://en.wikipedi...ot_M_Disposal_Site
Interesting find!
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Uday Shankar
Location: Milwaukee, WI
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Buried NUKE Reactor near Chicago
<Reply # 10 on 10/2/2010 2:59 AM >
| | | | Posted by Freak
Nice, I wonder if they plan to update that marker... I think the idea for Yucca Mountain was to create language-neutral signs that would retain their meaning far into the future
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Nuclear semiotics
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junkyard
Location: LaCrosse, WI
Gender: Male
Strategic Beer Command where the metal hits the meat.
| | | Re: Buried NUKE Reactor near Chicago
<Reply # 11 on 10/9/2010 6:40 PM >
| | | | There is also some Manhattan Project waste burried in St. Louis. You might be supprised as to where it is.
I drink gasoline for breakfeast and beer for dinner!
Any problem can be licked with a case of beer and a few sticks of dynamite.
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oh-ten
Location: San Francisco CA
Gender: Male
| | Re: Buried NUKE Reactor near Chicago
<Reply # 12 on 10/25/2010 11:09 PM >
| | | | Posted by junkyard
There is also some Manhattan Project waste burried in St. Louis. You might be supprised as to where it is.
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Do you mean the waste buried under the artificial hill, or do you mean the waste illegally dumped in the landfill in the floodplain upstream from the municipal water intakes? Or is there another place I'm not aware of?
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junkyard
Location: LaCrosse, WI
Gender: Male
Strategic Beer Command where the metal hits the meat.
| | | Re: Buried NUKE Reactor near Chicago
<Reply # 13 on 10/26/2010 4:30 AM >
| | | | I'm sure Mallinckrodt put it in several places. Where is the artificial hill? It isn't near Latty Ave by chance is it? Or is that near St. Charles by the old processing plant on the former Army Ammunition Plant?
I drink gasoline for breakfeast and beer for dinner!
Any problem can be licked with a case of beer and a few sticks of dynamite.
Strategic Beer Command ruling the desert since 1995 http://www.strategic-beer-command.com |
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junkyard
Location: LaCrosse, WI
Gender: Male
Strategic Beer Command where the metal hits the meat.
| | | Re: Buried NUKE Reactor near Chicago
<Reply # 15 on 10/31/2010 2:36 PM >
| | | | Same kind of stuff. I assume the hill is where the crap all got dozed. They were going to build a giant containment cell out of concrete. Maybe they did and covered it with dirt. I haven't been out that way in at least 10 years.
I drink gasoline for breakfeast and beer for dinner!
Any problem can be licked with a case of beer and a few sticks of dynamite.
Strategic Beer Command ruling the desert since 1995 http://www.strategic-beer-command.com |
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ensimismada
Location: CA
Gender: Female
...wishing I had time for one more photo...
| | Re: Buried NUKE Reactor near Chicago
<Reply # 16 on 10/31/2010 5:17 PM >
| | | | Posted by Freak
Nice, I wonder if they plan to update that marker... I think the idea for Yucca Mountain was to create language-neutral signs that would retain their meaning far into the future, since the half-life of some of the materials is longer than the expected survival of any modern language. In 10,000 years maybe that marker near Chicago will attract futuristic grave robbers looking for loot
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Interesting!
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