photographyserved.com— One cannot see the nuclear-explosives production facilities built during the Manhattan Project without experiencing a sense of awe at what was accomplished.
Jul 14, 2009View in Crawl 4
Yup; especially the stuff at Hanford. What worries me more is the physical decay of the buildings, especially the gaseous diffusion building in picture #6. Brickwork, if not properly maintained in a corrosive environment (think acid rain), will after sometime develop what I call "chalking." This phenomena causes the brick to turn from something as hard as a...well, *brick*, back into its raw material; usually shale that is left out in the elements to decay for about 2 years before processing and being kiln-fired.
I don't think the victims of the bombings would find this very cool like some diggers do. These facilities and what they produced should have never existed.
You'll be interested to know that if you are not a US citizen you can't tour these sites since 9/11. I know because I am not, and I drove all the way to Oak Ridge and found out.
fuzzybeardJul 15, 2009
Yup; especially the stuff at Hanford. What worries me more is the physical decay of the buildings, especially the gaseous diffusion building in picture #6. Brickwork, if not properly maintained in a corrosive environment (think acid rain), will after sometime develop what I call "chalking." This phenomena causes the brick to turn from something as hard as a...well, *brick*, back into its raw material; usually shale that is left out in the elements to decay for about 2 years before processing and being kiln-fired.
sexyboboJul 15, 2009
The captions were saying when the building was built not when the photo was taken.
drnemoJul 15, 2009
I don't think the victims of the bombings would find this very cool like some diggers do. These facilities and what they produced should have never existed.
thundercat1971Jul 15, 2009
<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calutron">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calutron</a>
shyboyJul 15, 2009
Is this a level out of Halflife2?
al89Jul 15, 2009
You'll be interested to know that if you are not a US citizen you can't tour these sites since 9/11. I know because I am not, and I drove all the way to Oak Ridge and found out.
aserer511Jul 15, 2009
a veritable and true site of history
dfrankowJul 18, 2009
Yes, Feynman describes getting permission to tell the people at Oakridge what was going on so they could make things safe themselves.