unusual tourism and a question
Sep. 29th, 2004 11:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beige_alertInspired by Charlie Stross’s article about his tour of the Torness reactor complex I have put up a brief article about my own tour of Clinton Power Station.
This got me thinking about the various things I’ve seen that can only be seen by special arrangement. The nuclear plant tour was probably the most generally closed to the public thing I’ve seen, but one of the more remarkable summer-school programs I attended was on the topic of energy and included tours of a research reactor at Argonne and of one of Commonwealth Edison’s coal-fired plants. The remarkable part is that I was 13 years old at the time. It seems amazing now that it could have been arranged for a group of such young students to spend a day at a power plant.
What’s the most interesting thing you’ve seen that isn’t normally viewable by the public? How did you get to see it?
This got me thinking about the various things I’ve seen that can only be seen by special arrangement. The nuclear plant tour was probably the most generally closed to the public thing I’ve seen, but one of the more remarkable summer-school programs I attended was on the topic of energy and included tours of a research reactor at Argonne and of one of Commonwealth Edison’s coal-fired plants. The remarkable part is that I was 13 years old at the time. It seems amazing now that it could have been arranged for a group of such young students to spend a day at a power plant.
What’s the most interesting thing you’ve seen that isn’t normally viewable by the public? How did you get to see it?
