My Town's Abandoned Missile Base

[thehardknoxlife 10+ year member]

how do you know?




nice spot btw, good luck digging it out. watch out for the law though.

I was working in Oak Ridge near the Y-12 plant. Me and a couple of co-workers were riding around at lunch and we go down a small road and come to a guard shack on the outside of a 10ft fence. 2 MP's come out guns in hand and point us back the way came, not in a friendly way either. How we missed the big sign that said "U.S. Government Restricted Area DO NOT ENTER violators will be prosecuted" is beyond me.

There are lots of places you can't go around there. I've been with my dad a couple of time delivering fork trucks to the Y-12 and K-25 plant There are so many building around there it's hard to tell what is what if your not familiar. The K-25(where they diffuse uranium) is a huge plant. It's bigger than the shopping mall near my house. You have to have your own ORNL ID to get through the front gate, then you have to show ID at the door and sign in, then another ID check when you make it to the warehouse(sign) followed by a couple of pages of paperwork just to deliver a **** fork truck. Then do that all over again to leave.....do you ever wonder what's in the big green train cars that have no markings rolling through on the train tracks lol.....Don't get near it.

There is also a place in Morgan Co. not far from Oak Ridge that is restricted, I have no Idea what that place is but I know you can't get in. I saw a huge satellite looking thing being delivered there once. Whatever it was, was so heavy the asphalt was cracked from the truck driving on it.

If you want a job cleaning radioactive machines with 100% mean green K-25 starts you out at $15 with no experience. You pretty much have to know someone to get you on though. Alot of familys works there. By 1 year you should be close $20 an hour. Plus you get your own doctor....everyday. One thing I never understood was when you work there you suit up your whole body except your face then they give you a clear face shield the goes on like a hardhat. Your face still exposed to the air. You tape up around your ankles and your wrists. I never understood that. They test you everyday to see how much radiation you've been exposed to. Anyway I'm rambling.........

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

I was working in Oak Ridge near the Y-12 plant. Me and a couple of co-workers were riding around at lunch and we go down a small road and come to a guard shack on the outside of a 10ft fence. 2 MP's come out guns in hand and point us back the way came, not in a friendly way either. How we missed the big sign that said "U.S. Government Restricted Area DO NOT ENTER violators will be prosecuted" is beyond me. There are lots of places you can't go around there. I've been with my dad a couple of time delivering fork trucks to the Y-12 and K-25 plant There are so many building around there it's hard to tell what is what if your not familiar. The K-25(where they diffuse uranium) is a huge plant. It's bigger than the shopping mall near my house. You have to have your own ORNL ID to get through the front gate, then you have to show ID at the door and sign in, then another ID check when you make it to the warehouse(sign) followed by a couple of pages of paperwork just to deliver a **** fork truck. Then do that all over again to leave.....do you ever wonder what's in the big green train cars that have no markings rolling through on the train tracks lol.....Don't get near it.

There is also a place in Morgan Co. not far from Oak Ridge that is restricted, I have no Idea what that place is but I know you can't get in. I saw a huge satellite looking thing being delivered there once. Whatever it was, was so heavy the asphalt was cracked from the truck driving on it.

If you want a job cleaning radioactive machines with 100% mean green K-25 starts you out at $15 with no experience. You pretty much have to know someone to get you on though. Alot of familys works there. By 1 year you should be close $20 an hour. Plus you get your own doctor....everyday. One thing I never understood was when you work there you suit up your whole body except your face then they give you a clear face shield the goes on like a hardhat. Your face still exposed to the air. You tape up around your ankles and your wrists. I never understood that. They test you everyday to see how much radiation you've been exposed to. Anyway I'm rambling.........

Not all ORNL is like that...you should see some of their computer engineering people. Some of the software they have for terrorism seraching makes google look like searching in a paper dictionary.

 

[thehardknoxlife 10+ year member]

Not all ORNL is like that...you should see some of their computer engineering people. Some of the software they have for terrorism seraching makes google look like searching in a paper dictionary.

Lol, people who work there are very quiet I have noticed. A good highschool friend of mine I grew up with worked there thanks to his uncle. He became very unsociable after working there for about a year....Weird he was a cool guy......His uncle well he was one weird cat. Always had a briefcase with him. He could make you feel real stupid real fast. He told me once they kept him there for 3 months straight once back in the 70's. He didn't really talk about what he did so I have no Idea.

 

[denim 5,000+ posts]

that would be cool to check out

 

[thehardknoxlife 10+ year member]

I remember once when I was 12 or 13 and I lived in Roane Co.(10 minutes from Oakridge) a train de-railed and 3 of those green cars busted open and started to leak there was a cloud of smoke you could see for 20 miles. They evacuated anything and everything around. It was like 10 miles from where I lived.

 

[j3bus2k3 5,000+ posts]

Knox, how often are you around Oak Ridge? I'm heading back up to see my grandfather in a month, he can tell you some crazy shit about what he was involved in during the projects and operations.

 

[thehardknoxlife 10+ year member]

It's only like 30 minutes away. I'm currently working right off Oak Ridge HWY. The Knox side.

 

[supa_c 5,000+ posts]

subscribing in hope for more pics

 

[snoopdan 5,000+ posts]

anyone wanna see a DoE particle accelerator labratory where I worked at? I'll post pics if there is interest //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/naughty.gif.94359f346c0f1259df8038d60b41863e.gif

 

[Bloodstalker999 10+ year member]

anyone wanna see a DoE particle accelerator labratory where I worked at? I'll post pics if there is interest //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/naughty.gif.94359f346c0f1259df8038d60b41863e.gif

I would like to, start a thread on it //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/thumbcool.gif.25d3f515a7f948dd6be51428263071ef.gif

 

[Pl8er 5,000+ posts]

aye post! Particle accelerators rule!

 

[snoopdan 5,000+ posts]

I would like to, start a thread on it //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/thumbcool.gif.25d3f515a7f948dd6be51428263071ef.gif

eh im at work right now at an army base, so I dont have time for a long thread, but here is a teaser pic

Thats me sitting on the big red thing, .... which happens to be a 10TeV dipole cryogenic superconducting particle accelerator beam line //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/cool.gif.3bcaf8f141236c00f8044d07150e34f7.gif The big white wire spool is actually superconducting niobium/titanium wire. The big brown building in the bottom of the pic is the facility, mostly unmarked and out in a texas pasture and the size of 3 football fields end to end.

i'll post some more up if there is interest.

 

[cpierce 5,000+ posts]

There is so much shit going on that the general public will never know about //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif Must be nice to be in the loop!

 

[btnhfan 5,000+ posts]

Speaking of particle accelerators.....

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

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

There is so much shit going on that the general public will never know about //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif Must be nice to be in the loop!

I'm not that in the loop here. I have a good idea but the parts are independant of each other on my level.