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Because the US cancelled its plan for a single nuclear waste repository, all spent fuel for nuclear power plants is stored on-site - including sites where the plant has been shut down or demolished like in this photo where Trojan Nuclear Power once stood near Portland, Oregon [OC]

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This door inside Chernobyl still gives me the creeps [OC]

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Fall colors and fresh snow on Mt. Rainier [oc]

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This decommissioned nuclear power plant is now surrounded by fields of solar panels

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'Terrible Tilly' lighthouse off the Oregon coast - built in 1881, abandoned 75 years later due to its dangerous inaccessibility before being used as a columbarium for several decades - basically it wasn't spooky enough so someone crammed it full of ghosts [OC]

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A Minuteman 1 nuclear missile silo near downtown Seattle [OC]

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A-12 high-altitude spyplane sitting on an aircraft carrier in New York City

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'Terrible Tilly' - the Tillamook Lighthouse off the Oregon coast, built in 1881 it was abandoned 75 years later due to the dangerous location. It is now privately-owned and was used as a columbarium for several decades. Currently listed for sale for $6.5 million [OC]

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This historic fire station contains more ghosts than any other single building in New York City (OC)

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On this date in 1969, an SR-71 Blackbird was brought down by piece of duct tape [OC]

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Oil platform Holly just off the coast of Santa Barbara - the wells were capped and abandoned after the oil company filed for bankruptcy in 2015 [OC]

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Snapped this photo at ILM on a recent rainy day in San Francisco

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Zumwalt-class stealth destroyer on the Columbia River today [OC]

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Remains of the USS Plainview - the US Navy's largest experimental hydrofoil from the Cold War [OC]

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17 tons of freshly picked Washington apples arriving from an orchard in Yakima [OC]

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Fields of solar panels grow in all directions for miles around the towering hulk of a decommissioned nuclear power plant [OC]

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Saw these all over San Juan Island last week and had a chuckle. Seattle reads books, and look what happened to THEM!

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This fenced-in area is the physical footprint of 50 years worth of fuel for a nuclear power plant

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WEST SEATTLE IS BACK BABY!

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Fall in the Pacific Northwest (OC)

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An uncommon angle of the Market from last night

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Wikipedia says visitors cannot get close to the sculpture instead of shouldn't - it's killed before, it'll kill again.

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11,400 TEU container ship arriving in Seattle

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Boy that mass of air just hit hard, didn't it?

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10,000 mirrors using light to melt salt to generate electricity at Crescent Dunes, Nevada

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One year ago in Seattle

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Ferries of the Pacific Northwest #8 - Chimacum

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The Pink Elephant Re-emerges!

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USS Kitty Hawk, last of America's non-nuclear aircraft carriers, departing the ghost fleet in Puget Sound to begin her 16,000 mile journey to a Texas scrapyard [OC]

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Tiny forest on an abandoned ship in the Pacific Northwest

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Fall colors and new snow on Mount Rainier [oc]

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This ship was built in 1943 as a stores supply vessel during WWII; it is made entirely out of reinforced concrete, it participated both atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll during Operation Crossroads, and is still afloat today as a breakwater in Powell River, British Columbia [OC]

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Wouldn't be a trip to Vegas without spotting an unmarked JANET 737-400 on its evening commute to Area 51 [OC]

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Glad I got the word out to people who appreciate seeing one of these pass through - here is my capture from Edmonds

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It's Halloween so here's my second-favorite spoooooky spot in the Pacific Northwest

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ITAP of a drawbridge

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How about some common courtesy, yeah?

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Nose-to-nose with one of Area 51's Greatest Hits - the Lockheed A-12

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I took a photo of this historic firehouse in New York City; supposedly it is CHOCK full of ghosts

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Jets in the City

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Seattle skyline sees a surge of Слава Украіні!

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This lever is used to manually set the position of individual control rods for Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station's #2 RBMK reactor.

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New 315' ship-to-shore cranes inbound to Seattle yesterday aboard the Zhen Hua 36 - cranes are welded to the deck and the ship is a former tanker, with 50' of ballast tanks below the water

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52 years ago today, Apollo 12 splashed down in the Pacific Ocean and was retrieved by this WWII-era aircraft carrier, the USS Hornet. [OC]

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Fogtober is the absolute best time of year

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Caught a pair of otters swimming in the flooded hold of a shipwreck [oc]

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This derelict Minuteman nuclear missile silo surrounded by an industrial parking lot about 4 miles from downtown Seattle [OC]

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'Spirit of America' - Staten Island Ferry built in 2005, can carry 4,427 passengers and up to 30 vehicles

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The way you look right through me

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Steiger Cougar 4WD tractor among the expansive green wheat fields of the Palouse region [oc]

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The former atomic heart of an American submarine, yesterday this nuclear reactor completed its 4-day, 700-mile journey from Puget Sound to the Hanford Site, where it will join over a hundred other naval reactors in Trench 94 for permanent storage

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Ten thousand heliostats focusing the sun's rays to melt salt at 1,050°F for power production at Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project in Nevada [OC]

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Tu-95 Bear Booty

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Looking back down Chernobyl's Golden Corridor from a doorway that leads into the decaying remains of reactor Unit 4

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Highway 2's fall transition is always fantastic

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If the Queen Anne broadcast tower were skyscrapers, this would be the view from the top

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HAARP High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program in Alaska, a 40-acre antenna array capable of emitting high power radio waves to study ionospheric enhancement for the purpose of communications and surveillance, home of conspiracy theories for everything from mind control to weather weapons [OC]

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A less common view of the abandoned, yet extremely popular Vance Creek Bridge [OC]

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Vibrant classic livery of a Boeing VC-25A practically glows in the soft light of a sudden rainstorm last night in Seattle [OC]

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Retired F-15 Eagles being slowly picked clean for parts to keep other fighters flying

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The New York Public Library [oc]

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My first time visiting the VLA since getting into photography

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A little love for Port Orford

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Concorde G-BOAD - notable as having made the fastest Atlantic crossing of any Concorde: New York to London in 2 hours, 52 minutes, and 59 seconds

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Lady Washington fires a cannon while kayakers and boaty bros prepare to board her.

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Nimitz returning to Puget Sound

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Legend-class Coast Guard Cutter USCGC Waesche passing through the Golden Gate into San Francisco Bay

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Sea Launch Commander and Odyssey space launch platform docked in California shorlty before relocating to Vladivostok. Sea Launch successfully put more than 30 spacecraft into orbit in the early 2000s [OC]

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Ferries of the Pacific Northwest #12 - Olympic

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The world's tallest single-masted sailing vessel (246' or 75m) dwarfs cruise ships and cannot fit under the Golden Gate Bridge [OC]

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Thank you for your support, Seattle

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Space Needle doin' a Blade Runner

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This is the most haunted building in NYC

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Sounder southbound from Seattle to Tacoma

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Early morning light on the Zakim Bridge

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Last of the Black Ball Line Ferries - built in 1959, the MV Coho can carry 110 vehicles and over 1,000 passengers on its route over the Canada/US border between Victoria and Port Angeles [OC]

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Took a detour on a recent Alaska trip so I could fly my drone over the HAARP (High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program) emitter facility near Gakona [OC]

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Finally managed to get a closeup of the old abandoned trestle that can be spotted across from Snoqualmie Falls

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Mushrooms growing at an abandoned nuclear power plant in the Pacific Northwest [oc]

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Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges

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New Super-Post Panamax cranes that arrived in Seattle this weeked [oc]

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Two new cranes for Terminal 5 arrived tonight from Shanghai - they'll dock tomorrow morning

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USS Nimitz - America's oldest operational aircraft carrier - returning to port near Seattle last night [OC]

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1954 DeHavilland DHC-2 MK.I Beaver landing in Alaska [oc]

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LIGO Hanford- the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory- where gravitational waves from the collision of black holes and other supermassive celestial bodies is detected through the use of lasers shot down a pair of 2.5-mile long tubes.

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Sadako Sasaki was 2 years old when an atomic bomb exploded barely a mile from her home. In 1955 she was hospitalized for leukemia and died 8 months later. The City of Seattle dedicated this statue of her on 6 Aug 1990, the 45th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima.

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101-year old Engine No. 70 of the Mt. Rainier Scenic Railroad making it's final run of the fall season

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When a US nuclear attack submarine is scrapped, the entire reactor compartment is cut out, capped on each end to form a sealed container, and barged 700 miles from Seattle to the Hanford Nuclear Site, where it is placed in a disposal pit with about 130 other reactors for permanent storage [oc]

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Almost every color of leaf on this ivy-covered building

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Icebreaker USCGC Healy - designed to break 4.5' of ice at 6mph or 10' of ice when ramming - launched in 2000 she is one of only two American ocean-going icebreakers - also the basis for the Borealis from Half-Life 2 [oc]

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Baremetal Blackbird - predecessor to the famed SR-71, a solid black paintjob was never given to this variant of the A-12 spyplane, providing a good look at the aircraft's all-titanium skin

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This door - despite leading to a rather innocuous place - still gives me the absolute creeps

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