A Walk in the Woods today.....

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and every lamp I walk by at home lights up on it's own :confused:


This stone marker is at Argonne National Laboratory's Plot M radioactive waste burial site, in the Cook County Forest Preserve District. Parts of the world's first nuclear reactor, built by Enrico Fermi's team at the University of Chicago's Stagg Field, are contained here in concrete vaults.
 
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Ha.

I was reading an article about how prevalent radio active material is in Russia. There were a group of hunters out in the winter hunting moose. They found a little dell, where the deep snow was melted, and instead of a hot spring in the middle, they found some green canisters putting off heat. They were hot enough to cook over, and the hunters spent a day or two using that as base camp. They all died within a few days.

So if you find any glowing metal canisters, putting off enough heat to cook over, and melt a large area of snow, run, run like the wind.


Great photo's. Great knife content.

Did I mention I really need a Skelly warden.
 
DOE-Is that Dept of Energy OR Destroying our Enviroment!!! On another like item, I remember walking in the woods and battle fields of WW1 on one of my several trips to France and coming across DO NOT ENTER signs MUSTARD GAS!!! That was 1977-79
 
If I lived in that area I would blame my hair loss on it LOL. A friends father was in Hiroshma after the war and he blamed his hair loss on a piec of cement he brought back.
 
Bigfattyt said:
Ha.

I was reading an article about how prevalent radio active material is in Russia. There were a group of hunters out in the winter hunting moose. They found a little dell, where the deep snow was melted, and instead of a hot spring in the middle, they found some green canisters putting off heat. They were hot enough to cook over, and the hunters spent a day or two using that as base camp. They all died within a few days.

So if you find any glowing metal canisters, putting off enough heat to cook over, and melt a large area of snow, run, run like the wind.


Great photo's. Great knife content.

Did I mention I really need a Skelly warden.
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Back in the 90's a couple "bricks" were found after erosion on the site.

It says do not dig but there are spots around the perimeter that have turned dirt. Maybe they are doing soil samples peridically.
 
PorcupineMtns66 said:
It says do not dig but there are spots around the perimeter that have turned dirt. Maybe they are doing soil samples peridically.
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Good guess. Areas that like are "monitored" on a routine basis to confirm the effectiveness of the radiological controls imposed. I suspect that area is covered under the provisions of CERCLA.

Rick - working near what used to be called Argonne-West
 
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