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[21 May 2006|07:35am] |
This morning CDI (Controlled Demolition, INC) blew up the Trojan Nuclear Power Plant Cooling Tower. The Tower took 2 years to build and cost more than $10 million. ( Read More )
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I am pretty bummed about this. To understand why, you have to know that, as a child, my parents drove me past Trojan every other weekend on highway 30 to the coast, for twelve years of my life. Trojan ceased being a working nuclear power plant in the late eighties/early nineties, but prior to that, my gradeschool science class took a field trip there. We learned about how it worked and toured the plant. Several times since it was shut down, I've taken out of state visitors (Kyle, you remember this!) to see the massive structure that looms over the Oregon side of the Columbia river. Many have said they will miss the tower, especially since it provided a landmark that rivergoers used as well. I am sure that everyone who was raised here was watching the news along with me as the tower came down this morning in a cloud of smoke.
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