Dawsonville Georgia Nuclear Aircraft Laboratory 1959........ Bet ya didn't know

[DinkyDau]

Is that what happens when you pull a reactor core out of the pool?

Don't have a clue

 

[BIKER13]

we been all over the site. The underground areas are flooded, some went 5 stories in the ground.

 

[THREEJAYS]

One of those tunnels goes all the way to the Georgia Guide Stones in Elberton.

That’s how they slipped in and bombed it

 

[Boogar Presley]

There's a few urban exploration videos on it. Always wanted to go explore it myself

 

[Granite3]

Went into the underground control room back in 86. Had about a foot of water in it, stairwells going down were totally flooded.
The water was surprisingly clear till we disturbed the silt.

Entrance was a wide rabbit hole, not many people visited. We rappelled off the hot tower several times as well. Within a year the fence around the hot tower was fixed and the entrances were bulldozed and concreted.

 

[basstracker89]

Knew about it a long time ago. They had a special on it once where they went down and explored

 

[Boomer Mike]

So that must be Awesome Bill's secret -- he's radioactive! BTW, did you know there's a nuclear bomb that was lost near Savannah in 1958?

 

[Billybob270]

Good ol' Lockheed.
They were trying to build an aircraft with nuclear powered engines, so that they could stay in the air 6 months at a time to watch for Russian nuclear missiles. Kinda like the nuclear submarines stay underwater off the Russian coast 3~6 months at a time.

 

[Billybob270]

It's completely flooded now, but here's what it looked like. It's still all intact....minus the reactor core. There are videos on youtube where people dug in and scuba dived down....and a couple that took Geiger counters with them to read the radiation levels.

 

[RiverBend]

Rode motocross bikes into tunnel before they blocked main entrance and flooded it all. We rode a long ways and went into offices, and other lab rooms, that was back in the early 70's.