The First Nuclear Plant Traditional Cache
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...... Not on I-90...... Do not stop on the Interstate....There is another road.
You are looking for a 3/4" diameter camo'ed tube with log sheet inside.. You really don't need to go out into the woods - stay really close to the road and stay off of any private property. No digging required.
When I was growing up I remember people talking about a nuclear power plant that was being built right here in Sioux Falls, SD. Yes, a nuclear plant right under our noses. I worked construction in the early late 60's and early 70' building concrete pads for transformers next to this facility - it had been deactivated by then.
Here is what Wikipedia says about it: The Pathfinder Atomic Power Plant is a nuclear power plant built by Northern States Power Company near Sioux Falls. After only one year's operation Pathfinder was converted to a conventional power plant because of technical problems.
Location: Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States
Type: Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) -- in contrast to earlier carbon dioxide cooled nuclear plants such as the Magnox and UNGG reactors
Net Output: 59 MWe
Now decommissioned.
Date started: July, 1966
Date closed : October, 1967
The Pathfinder location is now known as Angus Anson Generating Station, which was formally established in 1994, when two peaking units were installed to provide additional generation to the Sioux Falls area. The site previously was home to the Pathfinder plant, which was originally built as a pilot nuclear plant - a facility that laid the groundwork for the company's successful nuclear operations at Monticello and Prairie Island. Pathfinder later was converted to an oil and gas-fired peaking facility, although it is no longer operating.
If you turn and look south from the location of the cache up on the hill to the south is where the facility used to be. They took the nuclear core out of the area about 10 yrs. ago and buried it out in the State of Washington.
Now, you will understand what the signs mean.
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Gur byq GI fubj jvgu Nyyna Shag ----- "Fzvyr, Lbh'er Ba Pnavq Pnzren".
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