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Ookpik
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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
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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
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Post Number: 1077
Registered: 07-2004

Posted on Monday, June 25, 2007 - 7:33 am:

The original Fermi boondoggle?

Redvetred
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Post Number: 31
Registered: 04-2007

Posted on Monday, June 25, 2007 - 7:36 am:

Fermi I near Newport , MI.

Psip
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Post Number: 1931
Registered: 04-2005

Posted on Monday, June 25, 2007 - 7:41 am:

Yep Fermi 1

http://historicmonroe.org/h024 .htm

Lowell
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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. Fullers 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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