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Barge carrying the reactor (weighing over 100 tons) is brought towards the dock.
Reactor supports are cut from barge. Note difference in level of barge deck and dock.
Reactor is jacked up through the night. Barge has been water-ballasted flush with dock.
Canadian spy at site after reactor off-loaded to dock.
Slightly visible is the steering action of the transporter's 528 tires. The barge's balast tanks are alread being emptied.
Small stenciled text and a 4" radiation symbol are only markings on reactor.
Three trucks (the similar ones have 800hp V-12 engines) pull the reactor up the hill at a fast-walking pace. Note men riding on trailer to provide extra traction.
I drove beside the moving 'package' - being pushed and pulled - and clocked it at a respectable 18 k.p.h.
Reactor disapears towards its burrial pit in the Hanford Site.
Page created by Tom Haythornthwaite.
March 28, 2001