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Next week I'm taking the 7 across the state for a tour of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Hanford was the site where they secretly produced plutonium for the WWII Manhattan project and the bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki. Later they had reactors operating for almost 40 years producing weapons grade enriched uranium and plutonium and it remains one of the most contaminated places on earth. Since I'm in the environmental/industrial cleanup business, it should be a pretty interesting visit. They are currently trying to manage 50 million gallons of highly radioactive waste, 25 million cubic feet of contaminated soil and cleanup contaminated groundwater that covers an area of 200 square miles. The size of the operation is staggering.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site

My car is already day-glo blue, maybe after this it will glow in the dark too!




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1980 Pageant Blue DHC with removable hardtop.

interesting stuff here, http://www.hanford.gov/page.cfm/AboutUS, too.

I work as a contractor at a different DOE lab, but enjoyed the read. Can pretty much thank this lab for ending the war.

Camps were set up for workers who had no idea what they were building.


-Tim
http://www.morSpeedPerformance.com

Interesting that's some clean up - we have a shut down nuclear generating station near me that is keeping loads of people employed, with any luck they will start it's replacement soon.

On another note you could buy "matchbox lesney USA" glo-in-the-dark model TR7s - thirty years on the two I have still manage to iluminate my display cabinet at night!

Ian Freeman
1979 TR8 DHC
Triumph Courier
Triumph owner for 31 years

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Century Gothic, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"> Can pretty much thank this lab for ending the war. <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"> Well, don't forget LANL LosAlamos - that's where the 'interesting' war time work/science was done...


<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Century Gothic, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"> On another note you could buy "matchbox lesney USA" glo-in-the-dark model TR7s
- thirty years on the two I have still manage to illuminate my display cabinet at night! <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"> I've got a couple of those - and my pair still glow OK too.
[No 49 and 27. The 27 is still in its unopened blister package...]

Thanks for posting, now I am quite frankly terrified!

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Definitely not on my "to do" list.

1975 TR7
1977 TR7 Sprint

I worked at WPPSS now know as Columbia Generating Station for an outage back in 1997 and some where out side of Kennwick was a silver TR8 at a garage that was abandoned with the engine cooked due to a bad water pump and radiator with the temp gauge pegged on hot. It was last on the road in 1986 and had 15,000 miles. I never got anything more since the garage owner was not around. I loved the area and drove there from Plymouth, Massachusetts in a brand new Dodge Neon ACR coupe getting 40 mpg with 3.90:1 LSD and a .85 5th gear.

Michael
1980 RALLY TR8 FHC #0020

Michael- Really a WOOPS worker?
Who have thunk

Don
"No More Cars For You"
71 TR6- Perpetual Stick a Wedge In It
80 TR7 V8 Kick in the pants

My TR7 started it's American life there. I think there may have been a TR7 dealer in Kennewick WA or at least in the Tri Cities area. Flew over the Hanford site in July. I must admit it looked creepy. Saw a pond of yellow stuff that looked really nasty.

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nick
'79 TR7 DHC
'75 TR7 FHC

V8Wedgehead:
I think that TR8 might have resurfaced in just the last couple of years. I recall a Craigslist ad from that part of the state for a very low mileage silver TR8 not that long ago.


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1980 Pageant Blue DHC with removable hardtop.

Don,

I Glowed for the money! I bought my 4th TR8 coupe with the outage money!

Michael
1980 RALLY TR8 FHC #0020

V8Wedgehead:
Does this look like the one you remember in Kennewick? 14,4XXX miles with a hard top and a little door damage. This one was listed a while ago, and now its back on Craigslist:

http://wenatchee.craigslist.org/cto/3226594831.html


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1980 Pageant Blue DHC with removable hardtop.

All that radiation must have shrunk its taillights....

Ken Morton
Anchorage, Alaska

1980 TR8, 1973 TR6, 1965 Volvo PV544, 1958 MGA, Jeep Cherokees