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  • My Radioactive Vacation

    From the page: "In October 1998 I took a vacation to visit the Trinity Site in South-Central New Mexico. This is where the United States exploded the World's first atomic bomb on July 16, 1945. The site is open to the public two days each year, the 1st Saturday in April and October. ... more

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  • Reviewed by isshevital on Jun 17, 12:26am

    wow. this website hasn't been updated in over 10 years.

  • Reviewed by civver on Jun 16, 5:07pm

    Interesting stuff.

  • Rated by TMinus10 on Nov 06 2008, 11:05am

    butz

  • Rated by ZeeGeeEmm on Sep 01 2008, 2:37pm

    From the page: "...With the setup I could then map where I went during the entire trip and plot the background radiation along the way. Thus, this became my radioactive vacation. "

  • Rated by prescribedgod on Dec 25 2007, 3:19pm

    I hope he patented his cool gieger counter/gps unit, that might be big money to militaries around the world

  • Rated by iwp506 on Nov 19 2005, 10:24pm

    very interesting

  • Rated by jasonstone on Oct 19 2005, 6:42pm

    From the page: "In October 1998 I took a vacation to visit the Trinity Site in South-Central New Mexico. This is where the United States exploded the World's first atomic bomb on July 16, 1945. The site is open to the public two days each year, the 1st Saturday in April and October. Since an atomic bomb was exploded here, there is not much to see in the traditional tourist sense. There is a rather shallow depression several hundred feet across, a simple monument at ground zero, a Fat Man type bomb casing, a few bits of concrete left from the shot tower footings and the ranch house where the Plutonium core was assembled. One thing that does remain from this test is radioactivity. This was the most interesting aspect of the site to me so I purchased a Geiger counter to measure what radiation is still present. I couldn't be satisfied with simply reading a few numbers so I built a simple hand-held computer to record the data so I could map the radiation within the fenced ground zero area. One thing led to another and I added a GPS receiver. With the setup I could then map where I went during the entire trip and plot the background radiation along the way. Thus, this became my radioactive vacation."