Exploring a Nuclear Reactor Test Site in Georgia, 4K 60fps
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- čas přidán 23. 05. 2021
- Here we travel to an area south Dawsonville, GA to explore, from the ground and from the air, the site of the Georgia Nuclear Aircraft Laboratory, a joint Air Force / Lockheed facility with an above ground, unshielded nuclear reactor that was used to test materials to be used in a nuclear aircraft under development, i.e., to see if the high radiation would disintegrate various materials or not. This was not the reactor that would be used in the aircraft. Two prototypes of those are sitting in the Idaho desert near Arco, next to the EBR-1 reactor plant.
The nuclear aircraft program was cancelled in 1961, but this facility was used for another 10 years doing various experiments that aren't officially documented.
If you want to learn more or want to visit, simply search "Georgia nuclear aircraft laboratory" in Google and CZcams search. I do not recommend doing any digging in the reactor area or hot cell vicinity without a Geiger counter on hand. Here are a couple of great videos to compliment this one:
Great video from 1959:
• Georgia Nuclear Aircra...
One of the many explorer videos:
• Dawson Forest: Past an...
Shot in 4K 60fps at ground level and above ground level. This is the only video of this site that includes aerial videos for a great overview.
The destroyed railroad bridge across the Etowah river is an awesome sight as well...The Action Adventure Twins have a recent video where they actually breach and explore the underground part of the facility in inflatable dingies. Very cool indeed. Thanks so much for sharing, and I wish everyone a wonderful day!
Thank you for putting this together. I am glad you did your research before hand. I see so many videos that have little or no facts. After Kennedy shut it down the nuclear bomber project there was a lot of research that went on after that for the next 8 years on how materials are affected by radiation. This site and one other in White sands did most of the testing that was needed. This site was used for large objects and white sands was used for smaller items.
I hope you weren’t talking about my video.
The cooling off area is fenced in like the hot cell building because it is still hot.
Great video! I live less than a mile from the facility.
I'm glad you liked it. What an interesting place that is.
I'm fascinated by this place. I've explored every inch of it. Would love to compare notes
I can help with that, I live next door to this place. I have hand drawn maps I've made somewhere
@@BarefootCaveman are the cops strict about people exploring inside of this place? Will I go to jail?
When I was a kid we rode motorcycles down there. There were not many trees back then.
I live here. Now there's a new housing complex a block away and an elementary school less than a half a mile away.
I live about an hour north of here. I remember hearing stories of nights where the sky was an odd darkish red color and people would joke about it being the reactor running. Who knows lol.
Lots of stuff in this video is great but alot of info about the place is wrong. At 4:00 or so, you say its the train house. In fact it's the roof of the reactor room. It goes down some stories where ethe reactor pool was at. It would actually be hoisted about 100 ft above your head at that point in the video. Also, the building with the hole in the roof I've been inside of.
what was inside ?
The area that doesn’t have any trees isn’t the reactor site? It looks like where the reactor was had a lot of trees grow in its place. The area with the underground facility is maybe where the open field is. Is this correct?