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Originally Posted by Hugh R View Post
I should! In high school (early 70s) I used to go swimming with friends in flooded quarries inside the chain fenced area of the K-25 gaseous diffusion plant. I got brought home by the Atomic Energy Commission police once and my dad, who was a nuclear engineer at Oak Ridge told me not to go in them again because in the 40s/50s 60s they dump a lot of radioactive stuff in them.
You should be able to charge up a car battery, at least!

I like the deer hunts, where they had to Geiger counter the deer before you could take it home. I figured if one flunked, it would cook itself on the way home!

Oak Ridge TN, highest percentage of genius IQ's of any town in America, for real! And scenic as hell!
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