Geo's Nuclear
and Science Tourism (6/11 update)
List of Nuclear Sites Visited (also WWII
and General Science)
Research Reactor, Rolla
MO
Missouri Research Reactor, Columbia
Missouri (apparatus workshops only, reactor
off limits
now)
Mallinckrodt Cyclotrons, 3 different
cyclotrons (employed there, also the
narcotics unit)
USEC Uranium Separation Plant, Paducah
KY
Oak Ridge TN- Museum of Atomic Energy(
1970's), (2000's) now relocated as
American Museum of Science and
Energy
Trinity Site (2003)
White Sands
Sandia National Lab, Solar Thermal
Materials Testing Lab
Nevada Test Site (2003, 2011 as
NNSS)
Atomic Testing Museum, Las
Vegas
NTS Reading Room, DRI, Las
Vegas
Los Alamos, Los Alamos
NM
Bradbury Science Museum, Los Alamos,
NM
The Black Hole, Los Alamos
NM
Thermo Eberline Corp.,Santa Fe
NM
National Atomic Museum, Albuquerque NM (3 different locations over
the years!
Kirtland AFB Site closed 9/11)
Uranium Mining Museum, Grants NM
National Mining Hall of Fame Museum, Leadville CO
Gillespie Mineral Museum, Stetson University, DeLand FL.
Western Mining Museum, Uranium Mining Exhibit, Geiger Counter
History Exhibit,
MME Curie biography play, Colorado Springs CO
Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs
AEC Radioactive Testing Pads Site, Grants NM
Uranium Mill Tailings Site, Grants NM
COMBAT AIR MUSEUM Forbes Field, Topeka KS
Many rad items. Radium, Thorium.
US Space and Rocket Center, Huntsville AL
Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville AL (pre
9/11)
Museum of Aviation Robins AFB, Warner Robins, GA
Again in 2011,
much expanded displays and hangers.
Deland Air Station Museum
Jacksonville Naval Air Station
Valiant Air Command War Bird Museum
Rad items on Military items Ra 226 and Thorium in jet engines,
Uranium daughters in Jet Igniters.
Weldon Springs Remedial Site (Manhattan District Site), Weldon
Springs MO
Hatch Nuclear Power Plant, Visitors Center, Baxley
GA
St. Louis Airport Site (Manhattan District Project Waste
Site)
Mallinckrodt St. Louis Site (Manhattan District Project
Site)
Mulberry FL Phosphogypsum stacks (Ra-226)
Mulberry Phosphate Museum
Bocks Car, National US Air Force Museum,Dayton OH (Approx. 30
times!)
Enola Gay, Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, Washington
DC
Titan Missile Site, Tucson AZ
Nike Missile Site, Pierre Marquette Park IL
Mesalands Dinosaur Museum, Tucumcari, NM (radioactive
fossils)
Advanced Technical Center, Mexico MO (nuclear power plant
training) Guest lecturer.
All Wars Museum, Quincy IL
Strategic Air and Space Museum, Ashland NE
Cape Canaveral, Kennedy Space Center (many visits, in 1976 they had
an
extravaganza tour, launch)
Again in 2011, viewed Shuttle Launch, did fly around after in a
C47A.
USS Alabama Museum, Mobile AL
USS DRUM Submarine Museum, Mobile AL
USS Lexington Carrier, New Orleans LA
Spruce Goose, Longbeach CA
Queen Mary, Longbeach CA
Camp Shelby Museum, Hattiesburg MS
Wings Over the Rockies Air Museum, Lowry AFB, Denver
CO
Pearl Harbor, Arizona Memorial, USS Missouri
Mighty 8th Air Force Museum, Savannah GA
National Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola FL
Memphis Naval Air Force Base (F-117 unveiling- "Lethal Force
Authorized" signs
all over)
Embry Riddle Aeronautical University
Air Force Armament Museum, Eglin AFB, Ft. Walton FL
Portable PET/CT scanner, Hannibal MO
45th Infantry Museum, Oklahoma City OK
The Imperial War Museum, London UK
American Police Hall of Fame , Titusville FL
Museum of Arts and Sciences
130,000 year old Giant Sloth fossil.
The French Army Museum at Les Invalides, Paris FR
Musee National de la Marine, Paris
Musee de L'Armee, Paris
City des Science et d'Industrie Paris (one of the world's
largest science
museums)
TELLUS SCIENCE CENTER, Atlanta GA area. Houses the Weinman Minerals
display,
a Fossils and Aviation museum. Radioactive Rolls-Royce Viper 521
Engine.
Argonaute attack submarine tour, Paris
Muse de Mineralogie, Paris (one of the largest rock museums in the
world)
Sentosa, Singapore, Fort Siloso Museum
U-505 Submarine, Chicago Museum of Science and
Industry
The Measured Mile, Daytona Beach Shores FL
Volcano Field Trips listed separately here:
Employed by:
Mallinckrodt Chemical, various plants
Monsanto Chemical, various plants
Pfizer Chemical. various plants
Mobile (oil) Chemical, various plants
Ethyl Chemical
Hercules Chemical
Sigma Chemical
Olin Brass Mill
Laclede Steel Mill
Continental Aluminum Mill
National Lead, various plants