Los Alamos Radiation Traditional Geocache

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Mesa Mike: Time to archive this one.

1) Container lid has been chewed by varmits, allowing everything inside to get wet. Pages of logbook stuck together, making it almost useless. Other contents ruined too.

2) The county will soon develop this tract of land. Remember the scene in Grapes of Wrath where the line of bulldozers pushed everything in their paths down into the dirt, including houses? That's what's going to happen here...

3) Most importantly, the radiation source has been relocated, and the control room has too. So the theme of this cache doesn't make much sense any more.

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Hidden : 10/14/2007
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Located near a source of radiation in Los Alamos County.

Los Alamos, of course, is the place where nuclear weapons of mass destruction were invented by the Manhattan Project during World War II. The Lab continues on today, still doing nuclear weapons research, including all manner of science and research involving radioactive materials and their uses. This cache is located on land that until recently belonged to the Lab and was off limits, and near (but a safe distance away from) a source of radiation, which is still on Lab land. The site actually hosts several co-located sources of radiation, the most powerful of which emits non-ionizing radiation at a wavelength of 201.34 meters, at the rate of 640 million microjoules of energy per second. The control room for this facility is located several miles away (gee, I wonder why?) at 145 Central Park Square in the townsite. When you're downtown, you might want to pop in and say hi to the control operators, Dave and Gillian.
NOTE: Please DO NOT cross over any fences that bear the yellow DOE (or any other) "NO TRESPASSING" signs! It is not necessary to do so. The cache is on County property. If you don't feel comfortable parking along the side of the road at the suggested parking coordinates, feel free to park where you do feel comfortable parking (like across the street in the shopping center). It is not necessary to climb over or through the barbed-wire fence, as the fence is broken in several places, and has been completely removed near the suggested parking spot.

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