Lockheed GA Reactor Site

[shellmoundal]

I am an active cave diver but before that I was an endurance horseback rider. I rode 100 mile circuit and that is how I MET MY WIFE. I WAS LIVING IN Atlanta so I trained at Dawson Forest whenever I was not on a ride.
We camped next to the old reactor but I don't see how anyone could enter it. In the late 90's it had a huge fence around it. No way to get over that fence especially with dive gear in hand.
I never heard, over 15 years of riding Dawson Forest, any report of contamination from the site. I must admit that it is a bit scary when you first see it and are told what it is.
How does one get access to diving it? I am going to Atlanta in May for my 50th High School Reunion.

[WEPIV]

I've always wanted to at least see this site during one of my working weekends up there.
I've heard all kinds of stories about this place but wrote most of it off. Either way, I'd like to see it as it would remind me of looking at old W.W. II bunkers with my brother when we lived overseas as teens.

[gasdiver]

I am an active cave diver but before that I was an endurance horseback rider. I rode 100 mile circuit and that is how I MET MY WIFE. I WAS LIVING IN Atlanta so I trained at Dawson Forest whenever I was not on a ride.
We camped next to the old reactor but I don't see how anyone could enter it. In the late 90's it had a huge fence around it. No way to get over that fence especially with dive gear in hand.
I never heard, over 15 years of riding Dawson Forest, any report of contamination from the site. I must admit that it is a bit scary when you first see it and are told what it is.
How does one get access to diving it? I am going to Atlanta in May for my 50th High School Reunion.

I'm guessing you were camping next to the "hot house", not the reactor. It had a fence around it. When I visited the site back in the 80's, there was a cement stairwell that led to water only a few steps down. Someone had torn the lock off the door and you could step inside. There was another entrance that someone had dug out and you could belly crawl into it. It was an underground ramp leading down at a minor slope. The water was only a few feet from the entrance. As the square cement tunnel sloped off, the water came up to the ceiling. Neither of these "entrances" had a fence around them.

I talked to some cave divers who said they had been in the place, that's how I found out about it, but I never had the desire to get contaminated.

[WEPIV]

The Toxic Avenger meets Mike Nelson...?

[Tracydr]

There's a Titan missile silo up in Washington that has diving. I watched a video on it and it looked kind of cool.
I'm an ex-Missile Launch Commander/Squadron Launch Commander for Minuteman 3 and I also instructed on the Peacekeeper trainer.

[Tracydr]

Here's a link to information about the Titan Silo diving in E.Washington State.
http://www.underseaadventures.net/silo.htm

[Johnny Bailey]

As "Slow" mentioned. This area is great for mountain biking and horseback riding. My brother and I checked the buildings that were accessible in the late 1980's with a geiger counter and only found very low levels of radiation. I really would not want to dive in the underground bunkers. No telling what is in the water.

[Johnny Bailey]

Another thought. It is very disturbing to think that Lockheed was researching building a nuclear powered airplane. A crash of such an aircraft would be bad news. But it was during the cold war era. We thought the Russians would have nuclear aircraft that would be flying nonstop just waiting to bomb us. Luckily, the weight of the shielding prevented building these aircraft.

[WEPIV]

There's a Titan missile silo up in Washington that has diving. I watched a video on it and it looked kind of cool.
I'm an ex-Missile Launch Commander/Squadron Launch Commander for Minuteman 3 and I also instructed on the Peacekeeper trainer.

"Keys and commodes." Something I remember from my security police tech school at Lackland in 1981. I was stationed only in USAFE, so ended up not dealing with silo security but had some training with it.
A buddy of mine lives near that Washington site and I would very much like to visit and dive it sometime.

[bamafan]

There is a missile silo that you can dive west of Fort Worth, Tx. I've never been but heard about it a few years back when I was working in that area.