Trojan Nuke Cooling Tower Implosion, May 21, 7 a.m.

[swag]

Yeah, we're funny over here. We have a defunct nuclear power plant called Trojan, and Portland General Electric is getting ready to implode the cooling tower. I had halfway hoped to watch the collapse from Highway 30, but it looks as though that won't be possible, so I'll just have to sleep in that Sunday.

Anyway, it should be fun to watch a cooling tower implode.



http://www.oregonlive.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/business/1147398919216030.xml&coll=7

Government agencies will slap tight controls on the area surrounding the Trojan Nuclear Plant on May 21, the date crews are scheduled to implode the facility's 499-foot cooling tower.

The explosion, involving thousands of sticks of dynamite and scheduled for 7 a.m., is expected to draw intense public interest. But Portland General Electric, which owns the power plant, and public officials in Oregon and Washington say the best place to watch the fireworks is on television.

Road, river and air closures are necessary, they say, to prevent a crowd of gawkers and surprised travelers from causing traffic snarls, even accidents.

Here are some details:

Exclusion zone. All property at the Trojan site, just south of Rainier along the Columbia River, will be closed from 5 p.m. next Friday until 7 a.m. May 22. Beginning May 20, Controlled Demolition Inc., the company hired to carry out the implosion, will enforce an exclusion zone encompassing a half-mile surrounding the tower. Only personnel authorized by Controlled Demolition will be allowed access.

There are no homes or businesses in the designated exclusion zone, which is owned primarily by Portland General Electric. The utility built the Trojan plant in 1976 and closed it in 1993.

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[In_The_Wind]

1. Another Trojan down the tubes.

It would make a great picture.

[dpbrown]

2. I hate it when my Trojan implodes....

D'oh!


:rofl:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. I wonder what it'd be like driving down I-5...

having no idea they were going to demolition it, and then all of a sudden you see it go down.