Ookpik Member Username: Ookpik
Post Number: 277 Registered: 01-2007
| Posted on Monday, June 25, 2007 - 7:24 am: | |
An outpost on Mars? This famous/infamous Detroit location is not actually in the city proper. For a larger version of the photo, please click here. Ookpik |
Catman_dude Member Username: Catman_dude
Post Number: 173 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Monday, June 25, 2007 - 7:31 am: | |
Judging from the clouds in the sky, I don't think it's Mars. Must be some other planet. The truck has two "Gray"s (as in Reptilian ) on it. |
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd
Post Number: 1077 Registered: 07-2004
| Posted on Monday, June 25, 2007 - 7:33 am: | |
The original Fermi boondoggle? |
Redvetred Member Username: Redvetred
Post Number: 31 Registered: 04-2007
| Posted on Monday, June 25, 2007 - 7:36 am: | |
Fermi I near Newport , MI. |
Psip Member Username: Psip
Post Number: 1931 Registered: 04-2005
| Posted on Monday, June 25, 2007 - 7:41 am: | |
Yep Fermi 1 http://historicmonroe.org/h024 .htm |
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell
Post Number: 3918 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Monday, June 25, 2007 - 8:20 am: | |
We almost lost Detroit. It appears to still be there, along with the all the waste ever created. http://maps.google.com/maps?f= q&hl=en&geocode=&q=monroe,+mi& ie=UTF8&ll=41.960487,-83.25794 6&spn=0.004268,0.011694&t=k&z= 17&om=1 The historic Monroe website is absurdly apologetic:
quote:I do not believe John G. Fuller’s book We almost lost Detroit to be at all factual. This book like the bulk of his other is work historical fiction or fantasy based on just enough fact to give the work a ring of truth. Yes, a zirconium sodium flow deflector did fracture possibly due to an unanticipated vibration mode partially blocking sodium flow through a portion of the reactor. Several fuel rods were damaged by overheating but nothing approaching a meltdown occurred. All of the zirconium deflectors were removed using special video equipment and tools that were developed, much of it locally. This took a lot of patience, time and ingenuity.
So I guess he would be happy to picnic there with his kids? |
56packman Member Username: 56packman
Post Number: 1449 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Monday, June 25, 2007 - 8:32 am: | |
Don't worry--top people are watching the situation! |
Karl Member Username: Karl
Post Number: 8242 Registered: 09-2005
| Posted on Monday, June 25, 2007 - 9:27 am: | |
Yeah, let's dam up some rivers so we have clean power - or use up some of that coal or natural gas. No that's not it: let's everyone use less - except me (you) of course. Thankfully we made these early efforts so that we have plenty of inexpensive, safe, clean power, but aren't up to speed with China or even France when it comes to this area. Again, thanks to Michigan for one of the first innovative, pioneering steps. |
Fareastsider Member Username: Fareastsider
Post Number: 463 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Monday, June 25, 2007 - 10:50 am: | |
Yea that waste is just laying around. The nuclear waster is safely stored. I for one would picnic next to Fermi and feel completely safe. I can breath easy knowing the terrible air quality that my area is known for because of 2 of the states top 5 polluters are the coal plants to the east in Saint Clair! |
Flybydon Member Username: Flybydon
Post Number: 143 Registered: 01-2005
| Posted on Monday, June 25, 2007 - 1:51 pm: | |
DTE St. Clair Power Plants. (Recor) http://www.aerialpics.com/B/st clair.html |
Rb336 Member Username: Rb336
Post Number: 256 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Monday, June 25, 2007 - 2:23 pm: | |
but aren't up to speed with China or even France when it comes to this area um, France has led the world in nuclear power for years |